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Review of the Lebanese wine called Chateau Fakra Cuvee du Temple

Lebanese Wines: Chateau Fakra Cuvee du Temple 2022

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Name: Chateau Fakra Cuvee du Temple 2022
Type: Red Wine
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon , Syrah, Grenache, Cinsault
Year: 2022
Country: Lebanon
Region: Kfardebian, Keserwan
Date Consumed: November 22, 2025

Friendly and surprisingly good for its price. A serious bang-for-your-buck bottle.

Chateau Fakra’s Cuvée du Temple 2022 is one of those Lebanese reds that works beautifully when you just want to unwind. Its price also makes it a good option for parties. It’s affordable, smooth, and consistently satisfying.

Overall, I’d say it’s a fulfilling blend. Don’t shy away from it.

Chateau Trois Collines Nysa Review

Lebanese Wines: Chateau Trois Collines Red Nysa 2022

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Name: Chateau Trois Collines Nysa 2022
Type: Red Wine
Grapes: Mourvèdre, Tempranillo, Agiorgetiko
Year: 2022
Country: Lebanon
Region: Bekaa Valley
Date Consumed: November 15, 2025

An interesting blend suitable for many occasions. Good for casual nights, but equally at home during a proper wine night with friends. It’s not the red that everybody will talk about the next day, but it’s definitely one of the first two or three bottles you’ll want to open. Especially if you’re heading into the kind of evening where six, seven, eight bottles or more mysteriously disappear.

It’s a smooth, fun, and lively wine that everybody can enjoy.

Review of Lebanese Wines by a top Lebanese Wine Reviewer: Chateau Ksara Le Souverain 2019

Lebanese Wines: Chateau Ksara Le Souverain 2019

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Name: Chateau Ksara Le Souverain 2019
Type: Red Wine
Grapes: Marselan, Arinarnoa
Year: 2019
Country: Lebanon
Region: Bekaa Valley
Date Consumed: March 21, 2025

I’m not very familiar with the grape varieties of this wine, but the spirit of cabernet sauvignon is in it, and I can taste it. Notes of black fruits, licorice sticks, and aphrodisiac spices come together to fill my mouth with poetry. I want more… but I don’t want to drink too fast.

I scrupulously enjoy and savor the wine, but I’m afraid I uncorked it too soon. The tannins are strong. I could have aged it a couple of years, and then I would have something much, much better. Much, much deeper.

Out of nowhere, I remember a sentence from Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus. It says, “If the world were clear, art would not exist.”

That’s why I sometimes blur the world with wine, I think — to make it less clear and be able to appreciate life as a work of art.

A clear, one-dimensional world is unfit for the soul of man…