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Lebanese Wine Review: A Red Wine by Couvent Rouge

Lebanese Wines: Al Dayaa 2014 by Couvent Rouge

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Name: Al Dayaa 2014 by Couvent Rouge
Type: Red Wine
Grapes: Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon
Year: 2014
Country: Lebanon
Region: Deir El Ahmar, Bekaa Valley
Date Consumed: February 2, 2025

An interesting discovery. This is good quality wine, and I’m happy that I tried it.

I bought it a while ago from a small mouneh shop located near the Monastery of Saint Maron in Aannaya. They had a selection of wine, and I just picked the one I was unfamiliar with. (You know me. I’m on a mission to try every red wine made in Lebanon.)

I uncorked the bottle on Sunday when we were having dinner with the family in an Airbnb apartment in Faqra. And all those who tried it liked it. It’s a smooth, easy-to-drink wine with notes of ripe red fruits and tiny hints of tomato and tobacco.

Unfortunately, since it isn’t really one of the famous wines of Lebanon, I couldn’t find anything about it on the internet. However, I got enough information about the bottle from the label — it mentions the name of the grapes used (Cabernet Sauvignon, Tempranillo) and where it was bottled.

It was bottled in Couvent Rouge, and I’ve tried one of their wines before.

Lebanese Red Wine Review: Chateau Oumsiyat Syrah

Lebanese Wines: Chateau Oumsiyat Syrah 2018

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Name: Chateau Oumsiyat Syrah 2018
Type: Red Wine
Grapes: Syrah
Year: 2018
Country: Lebanon
Region: Mount Lebanon
Date Consumed: January 26, 2025

I can imagine emptying a whole bottle by myself on a Friday evening after a long workweek. This is a nice wine to pair with long breaks and full-bodied Nicaraguan cigars. It’s also a nice wine to pair with philosophical texts. I can taste darkness and depth. I can smell pines and petrichor. I can see words sinking in a purple ocean…

Review of the Lebanese Wine from the Bekaa Valley Chateau Kefraya Comte de M 2020

Lebanese Wines: Chateau Kefraya Comte de M 2020

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Name: Chateau Kefraya Comte de M 2020
Type: Red Wine
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah
Year: 2020
Country: Lebanon
Region: Bekaa Valley
Date Consumed: January 2, 2025

One of the best Lebanese wines one can have.

Chateau Kefraya’s Comte de M 2020 is a full-bodied wine with playful tannins, and it comes with notes of black fruits, plum, tobacco, oak, and leather.

The most impressive Comte de M vintage I’ve had is probably 2008, which I’ve paired with a Macanudo cigar back in 2021, but this young 2020 vintage that I’ve tried recently was also quite impressive. (If I had another bottle, however, I’d definitely age it a few years. It’s a wine that deserves to be matured.)

Naturally, the Comte de M is a wine that would pair nicely with red meat, strong cheeses, and charcuterie. But I prefer to add some smokiness to the whole experience and pair it with mild or medium-bodied cigars rather than food. It is how I roll…