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Information:
The winter preceding the 1998 harvest was a normal Lebanese winter – a mixture of cold, rainy and snowy weather with several weeks of sunshine. This was followed by a cold, wet spring which lasted until June. Summer followed its normal pattern, although from June until October there was no rain at all.
The harvest started on the 9th September with mixed maturity levels: some grapes were already quite mature, whilst we delayed harvesting others for up to two more weeks. There was no obvious reason for this diversity, but this is “les caprices de la nature”. The crop was good in terms of both quality and quantity – the grapes were healthy and very good to eat.

Wine making:
Fermentation progressed smoothly, although slightly quicker than usual, maceration was up to four weeks. The wines were racked into French Nevers oak casks in August 1999 and aged for twelve months, then blended in September 2000 and bottled in August 2001.
Tarek said: ‘Let’s bottle at the end of the second year. Let’s try!’ We did 20,000 bottles like this, then the rest a year later, as usual. We tasted the wines four years later. Something was missing in the earlier-bottled wines. They had an obvious Chateau Musar character but were not necessarily better. Identity is permanently important. We went back to the original formula - Serge Hochar

Description:
The cooler 1998 has an elegant Cinsault dominance; the colour is lighter and more delicately perfumed than a typicalvintage. Despite this initial impression, the wine is deceptively powerful with a vibrant acidity and fresh, soft red fruit flavours and a very long, spicy finish. The ideal partner to mushroom and game dishes.

【酒仕🍷酒莊】
💁🏻‍♂️ Chateau Musar 於1930年由Gaston Hochar創辦其後由兒子Serge Hochar於1959年在波爾多(University of Oenology in Bordeaux)完成葡萄酒釀製課程後接手管理酒莊及釀酒。

💁🏻 酒莊初期只供應黎巴嫩內銷，直至1975年爆發內戰（長達15年）， Serge Hochar就明白是時候要把他的葡萄酒銷售到國外打進國際市場。因此，Chateau Musar在亦被冠上了峰火🔥下的葡萄酒。Serge Hochar 在炮火戰亂之下，仍帶領著酒莊工人冒著槍林彈雨下，釀製出足以傲視同行的佳釀！

💁🏻‍♂️ Serge Hochar帶着他的葡萄酒走遍全世界，出席無數葡萄酒活動，讓全世界葡萄酒業都認識他。在1979年英國的Bristol Wine Fair，Chateau Musar 1967備受著名酒評家Michael Broadbent MW肯定，被評選為“Find of the Fair”🎖️，從此打進英國市場，成為日後進展歐洲的重要第一步。

💁🏻 Serge Hochar對釀酒的熱誠及對葡萄酒的貢獻不單令Chateau Musar成為黎巴嫩第一酒莊（有黎巴嫩拉菲之稱“Lafite of Lebanon”），他更成功爭取了世界葡萄酒業的認同，他於1984年被世界性葡萄酒雜誌 Decanter Magazine選為 “Man of the Year 1984”🎖️。

【酒仕🍷釀酒】
💁🏻‍♂️ 當父親要求Serge Hochar接掌酒莊時，Serge Hochar收到這樣的條件：『我只想用最自然的方式釀酒，不用任何添加物，不用過濾，不用澄清，不用二氧化硫，甚麼都不用！』

💁🏻 六十年前，Natural Wine 還未十分盛行的時代，Chateau Musar 已經有了他們自己的堅持💪🏻。

【酒仕🍷試酒】
成熟而十分適飲的一個年份，酒香已感受到優雅、飄逸之感。香氣上帶上秋天🍂的氣息，秋葉🍁、黑松露和普洱茶，跟著就是成熟布冧﹑玫瑰🌹及一點醬油香。口感上豐富﹑單寧絲滑，而且有著士多啤梨果醬🍓﹑略帶一點薄荷🍃的味道。