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Reviewing Nabise, a nicely aged red wine from Mount Lebanon

Lebanese Wines: Chateau Nabise 2005

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Name: Chateau Nabise 2005
Type: Red Wine
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Syrah
Year: 2005
Country: Lebanon
Region: Mount Lebanon
Date Consumed: June 2, 2024

I brought two bottles of wine with me for Sunday lunch at my mom’s. One of them was Chateau Nabise. Since it was the older bottle, we opened it first, before we sat down to eat. All of us there were trying Chateau Nabise for the first time, and all of us were impressed.

A good blend, nicely aged, medium-to-full, soft tannins, smooth. Sweet notes of ripe black fruits, and chocolate. Subtle hints of oak and molasses.

Let me end this post with a question from one of the books I recently read.

The rise of Artificial Intelligence confronts all of us with a similar test: will humans show enough antifragility to survive and emerge even stronger from integrating the AI into their daily lives, or will they be extinct as humans?

– Slavoj Zizek, Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist
Review of the Cave Kouroum 8 Cepages Wine

Lebanese Wines: Cave Kouroum 7 Cepages 2013

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Name: Cave Kouroum 7 Cepages 2013
Type: Red Wine
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Carignan, Gamay, Grenache, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Syrah
Year: 2013
Country: Lebanon
Region: Bekaa Valley
Date Consumed: May 19, 2024

A full-bodied red wine from the Bekaa Valley with low-to-medium acidity and well-balanced tannins. It is a wine made with seven different grapes, and it is really worth trying. I uncorked a bottle during our Sunday barbecue with the family. There was me, my wife, my sister, her husband, and my mom. The wine was super easy to drink, and even though it was 11 years old, there was barely any sediment in it. For its age, it looked young and beautiful. It was paired with red meat and Lebanese mezza — successfully. And the whole party loved it. I’m giving it an 88/100.

Review of Lebanese Wines: Chateau Heritage 9 from the Bekaa Valley

Lebanese Wines: Chateau Heritage Nine 2020

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Name: Chateau Heritage Nine 2020
Type: Red Wine
Grapes: Cinsault, Cabernet-Sauvignon, Syrah, Grenache, Carignan, Merlot, Tempranillo, Cabernet-Franc, and Mourvèdre
Year: 2020
Country: Lebanon
Region: Bekaa Valley (Beqaa Valley)
Date Consumed: May 18, 2024

The Chateau Heritage 9 is a medium-bodied red wine with friendly tannins. But it doesn’t lack complexity. Made with nine different types of grapes, every sip of this wine contains a symphony of notes, including red fruits, black fruits, licorice, and oak.

Before uncorking it, I thought of the Chateau Heritage 9 as a mere experiment. After all, a blend of nine grapes isn’t ordinary.

I said, “You have to be someone like Des Esseintes from Against Nature by Joris K. Husymans to enjoy such wines.”

Honestly, I did not expect it to be this good.

And I wasn’t the only one to be impressed by it. Whoever tasted it liked it.

I’m giving this wine an 88/100.

A Quote:

He made his way to the dining-room, where in a recess in one of the walls, a cupboard was contrived, containing a row of little barrels, ranged side by side, resting on miniature stocks of sandalwood and each pierced with a silver spigot in the lower part.

This collection of liquor casks he called his mouth organ.

— Joris K. Huysmans, Against Nature