Name: Chateau Heritage Syrah 2016
Type: Red Wine
Grapes: Syrah
Year: 2016
Country: Lebanon
Region: Bekaa Valley
Date Consumed: 6 December, 2022
I like the color — dark, violet-red, murderous. Notes of wood, loquat, and strawberries.
I’ve had a few bottles of this wine before, and I wouldn’t mind having more of it. It’s good stuff.
I like to pair it with a medium-bodied cigar to enhance the experience.
I’d give it 79/100.
Name: Chateau Ksara – Cuvée du Troisième Millénaire
Type: Red Wine
Grapes: Cabernet-Franc, Petit Verdot, Syrah
Year: 2016
Country: Lebanon
Region: Bekaa Valley
Date Consumed: 4 December, 2022
Good wine in a good-looking bottle. Feels classic. Great to bring one with you when you’re invited for lunch or dinner. Deep purple. Full-bodied and playful. Notes of ripe strawberry, dried prune, and tiny hints of vanilla.
It scores 80/100.
Misak Metsarents (1886-1908) was a Western Armenian neo-romantic poet. This is my translation of “Rejection” from Armenian to English. He wrote this one when he was 17 years old.
One kiss from you would have made me happy,
But you deprived me of that soft, beautiful gift.
You spat your merciless “No” at me indifferently,
And since that day, I’ve been suffering differently.
You deprived me of that soft, beautiful gift,
And you dipped in black the beam
Of my soft smile, sometimes burning, sometimes calm.
On that day, I became an unfortunate, miserable person.
You spat your merciless “No” at me indifferently.
That sharp-edged “No” made my heart bleed.
That cold bludgeon of rejection
Wrapped my soul in black.
Since that day, I’ve been suffering differently.
The suffering destroyed and ruined my heart.
Since that day when I drank from that cup of poison,
My heart has been bleeding without stop.
Bored Absurdist 