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Mersel, exciting low intervention wines from special terroirs in Lebanon

August 13, 2025August 13, 2025 jamiegoode 850 Views

Website: https://www.merselwine.com/ Eddie Chami’s family comes from Lebanon, but moved to Australia in the 1960s. That’s where he grew up.

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Highlights Lebanon 

Highlights: Chateau Musar Hochar Père et Fils 2019 Bekaa Valley, Lebanon

November 16, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 893 Views

Chateau Musar Hochar Père et Fils 2019 Bekaa Valley, Lebanon13.5% alcohol. This is a blend of Cinsault, Grenache and Cabernet

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Highlights: Château Musar 2004 Bekaa Valley, Lebanon

November 6, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1339 Views

Website: https://chateaumusar.com/ Musar is the most famous name in Lebanese wine. I remember buying this distinctive wine when I first

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Highlights Lebanon 

Highlights: Mersel Elevate Marini 2021 Bekaa Valley, Lebanon

September 10, 2024March 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1638 Views

Time for something very different, and quite wonderful. Mersel Elevate Marini 2021 Bekaa Valley, Lebanon12.5% alcohol. This is from the

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Features Latest Lebanon 

The wines of Domaine des Tourelles, Lebanon

May 21, 2023May 22, 2023 jamiegoode 11113 Views

Faouzi Issa presented this range tasting of Domaine des Tourelles in London. He’s young (1984 vintage) but already has many

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Lebanon Profiles 

The wines of Château Ksara, Lebanon

December 1, 2020 jamiegoode 9902 Views

Lebanon is making some pretty interesting wines at the moment. As well as old favourite Musar, there’s the likes of

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Lebanon Profiles 

Marsyas and Bargylus: wines from Lebanon and Syria

September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 jamiegoode 11410 Views Syria

Sandro and Karim Saadé, brothers, have two vineyards. One is in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon (Marsyas), and the second

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Features Latest Lebanon 

Ixsir: the new star on the Lebanese wine scene

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 jamiegoode 12171 Views

Lebanon is a country with a long history of wine production, but – as with many countries in the middle

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Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California
California Features Latest Rhone 

Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 jamiegoode

Jason Haas of Tablas Creek and Andrew Bayley (GM of Beaucastel’s UK operation) presented this really interesting tasting, telling the

Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich
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Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich

September 28, 2025 jamiegoode
Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range
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Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range

September 26, 2025September 27, 2025 jamiegoode
Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 
Features France France Latest 

Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 Lisse Garnett

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Wine anorak is one of the leading wine websites. This is the latest version of the site that began life in 1999, and was founded by Jamie Goode, who at the time was working as a science editor.

Since then it has grown, and Jamie is now a full-time wine writer, lecturer, wine judge and book author.

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Disclosure: unless otherwise clearly marked, the articles on this site are free of conflicts of interest. Any sponsored content will be clearly marked, and potential conflicts of interest will also be disclosed. As is normal in the wine industry, many of the wines tasted here are free samples and some travel is sponsored by others (for example, regional bodies or groups of producers), but in these cases no guarantees of coverage are given.

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