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Best bottle of wine I've had in the last six months and from an unexpected place -- Lebanon.Chateau Musar '97 Gaston Hochar Red
Very french in that you can really taste the earth. Was brought to us by the sommelier at a restaurant in NYC -- it blew us away. Around $30 in stores and worth it.
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This is a wine that defies history.Mr Hochar, the owner, has his vineyards situated in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon. Back in the 1970s/80s, Beirut was the Paris of the Middle East - hence the French style in his wines. During the troubles of the 1980s and the Israeli occupation (no offence here, I'm a Brit), he continued to harvest his grapes even though his vineyards were subject to katyusha rocket attacks etc. Most of us in Europe, who drank his wines couldn't believe that he continued to make wine in such adverse circumstances, let alone produce wines of continued blockbusting quality.
For my European friends this is a very collectable wine. It has a pseudo cult status in Europe. I have had several bottles in my collection purchased from 3 different wine stores and what I found was that this wine tasted "cooked" from one of the sources. My impression that it is more susceptible to heat damage than a Bordeaux. Musar also makes an interesting white as well if you can find it.
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