Clos St. Thomas Les Emirs 2004; Bekka Valley, Lebanon
This delicious Lebanese Red incorporates cabernet sauvignon, syrah, and grenache grapes.
It has a delicious spice and vanilla flavor with supple, melting tannins and a beautiful long finish. Perfect with steaks and other game meat, this is a fantastic dinner wine to impress.
Drinks WELL past it's price point!
Lebanonese wine?
Lebanon is one of the oldest sites of wine production in the world. In Baalbeck, the ancient Greek city in the Bekaa Valley, the majority of vines are grown. French influence on the country is apparent in the grape varieties most commonly planted: Cinsaut, Carignan, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Mourvedre, Grenache and Syrah.
Lebanon has 300 days of sunshine a year, and enjoys a burgeoning industry producing award-winning wines for export to a wide Lebanese community now living throughout the world, mainly in the UK, Europe and the United States.
History...
The Phoenicians of its coastal strip were instrumental in spreading wine and viticulture throughout the Mediterranean in ancient times. Annual production of about 600,000 cases of wine. Recently the number of wineries went from 5 in 1998 to over 30.
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