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Massaya Cap Est Red Bekaa Valley 2015

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The vintage in the picture is not correct Wine maker notes pale ruby in colour, with a nose that subtly blendsviolets and very ripe red berry fruits. On the palate, seductive velvety elegance overlays an attractive weave of fine tannins, highlighting the minerality of the terroir. Producer It was Henri Brunier who penned the first […]

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The vintage in the picture is not correct

Wine maker notes
pale ruby in colour, with a nose that subtly blendsviolets and very ripe red berry fruits. On the palate, seductive velvety elegance overlays an attractive weave of fine tannins, highlighting the minerality of the terroir.


Producer
It was Henri Brunier who penned the first chapter of this wonderful family story in 1891, in the village of Bedarrides, well known today as occupying the southeastern portion of the Chateauneuf-du-Pape AOC area. In that year, he gifted to his son Hippolyte some plots of land on La Crau, a place in those days considered practically unfit for cultivation, its soil a thankless proposition due to a high density of pebbles. The latter planted his first vine stocks on this commanding plateau, where grapes had first been grown in the 14th century; and where, in 1821, Claude Chappe, inventor of the optical telegraph, built one of his signal towers. Hippolyte?s son, Jules, extended the estate to 42 acres and aptly named the fruits of his labours ?Vieux Telegraphe?. At the end of the Second World War, Henri, the second thus named and the fourth generation, had the formidable task of reviving the estate and shaping its destiny. Not content with enlarging the Domaine to a single expanse of 136 acres, he gave this classic Chateauneuf-du-Pape wine its full dimension, creating a ?Vieux Telegraphe? style and positioning it on all the world?s leading markets. Since the early 1980s his two sons, Frederic and Daniel, have been tending to the family concern. They now farm 242 acres in the Chateauneuf-du-Pape AOC area, and 37 acres of IGP Vaucluse and AOC Ventoux vines. Domaine Les Pallieres must also be listed: acquired in 1998 in partnership with family friend Kermit Lynch, this single-plot 309-acre estate in Gigondas has 62 acres of vines. The year 1998 also marked the creation of Massaya in Lebanon in association with Sami and Ramzi Ghosn, which now makes wines from 123 acres of vines, planted mainly in the northeast Beqaa Valley. After more than a century in existence, Domaine du Vieux Telegraphe and the subsequent additions, guided by the fifth generation of vignerons, and soon the sixth, has kept its original philosophy intact and very much alive.

MASSAYA TERRASSES DE BAALBECK BEQAA VALLEY, LEBANON LOCATION: grapes grown at more than 1

000 metres above sea level, on the foothills of Mount Lebanon, in the Hadath Baalbeck area, overlooking the famed

Baalbeck temples of Jupiter, Bacchus and Venus. AREA: 19 acres. SOIL AND SUBSOIL: chalky clay. GRAPE

VARIETIES: grenache noir 40%, syrah 30%, mourvèdre 30%. VINE AGE: 20 years on average. VINIFICATION:

conducted at our Tanaïl winery. Grapes are hand-picked, conveyed in crates, and sorted on tables. They are fully

destemmed, then vinified for 20 to 30 days in temperature controlled oak vats. MATURATION: 20 to 22 months i

Additional information

Weight 5 lbs
Dimensions 12 × 4 × 4 in
Product Code

29-38-JL-V-0
Condition

Properly Cellar; Distinguished Provenance
Size

750 ml
Region

Bekaa Valley
Vintage

2015
Country

Lebanon
Winery

Massaya

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