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Chateau Musar Red 2018
Chateau Musar
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About this wine
Chateau Musar Red 2018 from Chateau Musar is a red wine from Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. The published blend is Equal blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cinsault, Carignan. Published figures: 14% alcohol, residual sugar of 2.7 g/l and a pH of 3.47.
The tasting card
- Producer
- Chateau Musar
- Wine
- Chateau Musar Red
- Vintage
- 2018
- Region
- Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
- Appellation
- Bekaa Valley
- Grapes
- Equal blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cinsault, Carignan
- Sweetness
- Dry, from the producer's residual sugar figure for this vintage
- Farming
- No verified farming claim
- Alcohol
- 14%
- pH
- 3.47
Tasting note
deep garnet colour; dried cherries, mature red fruits; rich and concentrated; cranberries, raisins, dates; good acidity, fine tannins; smoky, dusty fruit, soft liquorice undertones; developed and mature
From the producer's tech sheet for the 2018 vintage, in the sheet's own words, shortened.
Winemaking
From the producer's tech sheet for the 2018 vintage. Only what the sheet prints.
- Aged for
- 12 months
- Aged in
- French Nevers oak barrels
- Made
- Each varietal was fermented with their natural yeasts in concrete vats; malolactic fermentations still pending 3 months after the beginning of the harvest
- Released
- Spring 2024
Structure
A bar appears only where the producer published a number. Measured figures come from the producer's technical sheet; the body bar is inferred from alcohol and labelled that way.
14% alcoholinferred Body is estimated from alcohol. It is not a producer measurement.
absent Not measured. No producer tech sheet behind these wines publishes tannin as a number, so we show no bar.
2.7 g/l residual sugarmeasured From the producer's technical sheet.
absent No total acidity figure published.
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