Wine Of The Month

This month's featured wine is the owner's choice.

A Chateaux Musar, Gaston Hochar 1999 from The Lebanon

A remarkable wine from a remarkable vineyard. The flavours are ripe and intense and the overall effect is warm and generous.

This wine is dense in taste with flavours of red fruit, liquorice, vanilla and some mint. It will drink well at present now, but will continue to age for another 10 plus years.


Producer: Chateau Musar is one of the most written about wineries in the world, and generally considered Lebanon’s top wine. Based 1000m up the side of the Bekka Valley 15 miles north of Beirut. The winery has been making wines that are capable of aging for 20-30 years.


Grape: This Bordeaux style wine is made from Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Ruby Cabernet and Merlot. Ruby Cabernet is the Bordeaux odd man out, being a Californian cross between the French grape Carignan and Bordeaux's Cabernet Sauvignon.

Region: The Bekaa Valley is Lebanon's wine-growing centre. It has long mild summers, rainy winters, and an average temperature of 25 degrees Celsius.

Enjoy it at Bodidris Hall for £29.95