Description

Information:
Musar Jeune red vines are from our organically certified vineyards in the western Bekaa Valley and the 2020 vintage was harvested during the last week of August. In January we had rainy and snowy weather, making pruning difficult, rain continued through February and into the spring months of March and April. This led to the best possible flowering season in late May and early June. July was ideal, with temperature averaging 27 degrees and we forecast that 2020 could become a record production year should the climatic conditions continue but unfortunately due to the September heatwave, we recorded a loss of 40% from our forecast quantities earlier on in the year. The red wines of 2020 are wines of taste and concentration, tannins and depth rather than aromatic fragrances.

Wine making:
The grapes were fermented in concrete vats with temperatures between 27 and 29 degrees Celsius. It was a race against the clock to have the wine fermented and racked, and to release fermentation vats for the grapes that needed saving from the heatwave but we managed. The Musar Jeune Red was blended in March 2021 and then rested in the vats until being bottled during the summer of 2021 and released in the spring of 2022. Musar Jeune Red is unfiltered and made according to our non interventionist wine-making philosophy.

Description:
Nose: Blackcurrants, blueberries prunes and strawberries on the nose with a hint of violets.
Taste: A richly fruited wine – the palate bursts with an explosion of red cherries, strawberries, blackberries with a little black pepper and spice with a beautiful soft texture


【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】
香氣上充滿著花果香,黑醋栗、藍莓🫐、李子和士多啤梨🍓的香氣令人感到清爽無比,而慢慢的更出現了紫羅蘭🌸的花香。口感上十分順滑,酸度充足,濃郁的果香,紅莓🍒﹑士多啤梨🍓﹑黑莓🍓,豐富的紅黑果香。果香之外,更有少許黑胡椒和茴香🌿的味道融和當中。