To celebrate Earth Day Lebanese winery Ixsir is marking the full fruition of a 10-year plant regeneration project. The project, which involved replanting 25,000 indigenous…
To celebrate Earth Day Lebanese winery Ixsir is marking the full fruition of a 10-year plant regeneration project. The project, which involved replanting 25,000 indigenous…
Lebanon’s oldest winery has celebrated its 160th anniversary by going back to its roots and launching a 100% Merwah. It is one of two grapes indigenous to the Middle Eastern nation, but it has previously been considered unfashionable by Lebanese winemakers. Yet Château Ksara, which is also the country’s largest producer, is bidding to change all that by affording it the sort of…
The largest UK tasting event of Lebanese wines is set to take place in London later this month. More than 20 Lebanese wineries will be at the Lebanese Ambassador’s London residence on October 25 for a trade and press tasting of the country’s latest vintages and styles. The event, which will be hosted by ambassador Rami Mortada, will show wines from a number of producers…
The Co-op has announced it is to become the first supermarket in the UK to stock a Fairtrade wine from Lebanon. The retailer is introducing Coteaux les Cedres, the first wine in Lebanon and the Middle East to have both Fairtrade and Organic certifications. The wine will be launched in UK stores this month, and the stock from the first order alone from The Co-op…
Lebanese wine industry legend Serge Hochar has died at the age of 74. Hochar, owner of the country’s iconic Chateau Musar winery, is reported to have died in a swimming accident while on holiday in Mexico on New Year’s Eve. Bordeaux-educated Hochar took over running of the winery in 1959 from his father Gaston who had established it in 1930. Under Serge Hochar’s watch the…
UK drinkers are developing a thirst for Lebanese wine as new figures reveal exports to the UK grew 33%. The UK market is now worth £2.7 million to Lebanon and it is showing the strongest growth figures out of all the countries the Middle East nation exports to. “The figures demonstrate that in markets where we as wineries invest significant time and money, we are…
