Lebanese
BACKGROUND
Wine is derived from a Phoenician word describing the fermentation of grapes. Phoenicians perhaps didn’t invent the wine however they perfected viticulture and preservation in the ancient world by storing their wine inside amphoras. In 1857 Jesuit Monks planted grape vines at Chateau Ksara in the Bekaa Valley. These were Cinsault grapes brought over from Algeria. In 1930, Gaston Huchar founded Chateau Musar, Lebanon’s most famous winery.
GRAND CRU (2007)
Musigny
This was an outstanding year, where quality went hand in hand with quantity. 1982 Cheval Blanc is rich and complete. It is one of the finest vintages in the latter half of the 20th century.
The beautiful colour is medium-deep and showing some bricking on the rim. The nose is remarkably powerful, concentrated, and complex with an elegant succession of truffle, crème caramel, and prune aromas, as well as a slight smokiness. When swirled in the glass, the bouquet goes on to reveal roasted overtones of coffee, cocoa, and chocolate overlaying spice (cinnamon) and praline. The wine starts out smooth, fresh and rich on the palate. It is rich, concentrated, round, and sinewy on the palate, but also fluid and in no way heavy. The velvety tannin is accompanied by flavours of cedar and blackcurrant, accompanied by blackberry and raspberry jam nuances that go into a very long aftertaste. This wine seems virtually eternal and still has the attributes of its flamboyant youth.
GRAND CRU (1990)
Chambertin
This warm year with record dry weather was as favourable to Merlot as it was to Cabernet Franc. This immense wine is elegant and powerful, with a beautiful tannic texture and great length. It will long leave its mark on the history of Château Cheval Blanc.
Medium garnet color, bricked throughout, much sediment. Rich and sweet nose of baked pie of stone fruits and berries, with an enormous mix of mints, tobacco pouch, damp redwood, beef broth in there. On arrival, low tannin and delicately low acidity.
Les Vignots (2015)
Pommard “Les Vignots”
2015 was hot and dry at the beginning of the year and then cool during the ripening season. Due to the exceptional quality of the harvest throughout, there was no Petit Cheval produced in this vintage. The 2015 vintage wines are beautifully balanced and harmonious.
Deep, shiny, ruby red colour with violet hints. The nose is extraordinarily intense. A medley of fruit, flowers, spices and balsamic notes combines with a marked freshness resulting in a bouquet of rare complexity. The initial aromas are dominated by red fruits, raspberry, blackcurrant crush and subtle floral notes of lily and violet. A powerful, rich attack develops into a dense mid-palate enveloped in precise, clean, elegant, distinguished and persistent tannins. This wine is rich and full-bodied with an extremely long finish. Power, elegance and distinction combine to create a perfectly harmonious wine.
"CHAMBERTIN DOMAINE ARMAND ROUSSEAU, GRAND CRU - A BOUQUET JUST WAITING TO BURST OUT. MARVELLOUSLY VIBRANT FRUIT ON THE PALATE. STUNNING IN ITS ABILITY TO FILL THE MOUTH WITH FLAVOUR."
Sazan Allija, DeVyne Founder
Domaine Leroy
Leroy, absolute perfection. More than a model, the wines are an absolute reference.
Domaine Leroy brings to mind the difference between good wines and the very best; it is, in fact, the absolute summit of Burgundy. This prestigious Domaine gathers nine Grands Crus. The vines are cultivated following biodynamic principles and produce extremely low yields, but with a quality that have no equal in the entire world of pinot noir. The beauty of the aromas of all of these [Leroy] wines only has an equal in the supreme elegance of their texture and precision of none other than the terroir itself. They are the absolute model of quality, recognized by everyone and universally sought after.
GRAND CRU (2007)
Musigny
This was an outstanding year, where quality went hand in hand with quantity. 1982 Cheval Blanc is rich and complete. It is one of the finest vintages in the latter half of the 20th century.
The beautiful colour is medium-deep and showing some bricking on the rim. The nose is remarkably powerful, concentrated, and complex with an elegant succession of truffle, crème caramel, and prune aromas, as well as a slight smokiness. When swirled in the glass, the bouquet goes on to reveal roasted overtones of coffee, cocoa, and chocolate overlaying spice (cinnamon) and praline. The wine starts out smooth, fresh and rich on the palate. It is rich, concentrated, round, and sinewy on the palate, but also fluid and in no way heavy. The velvety tannin is accompanied by flavours of cedar and blackcurrant, accompanied by blackberry and raspberry jam nuances that go into a very long aftertaste. This wine seems virtually eternal and still has the attributes of its flamboyant youth.
GRAND CRU (1990)
Chambertin
This warm year with record dry weather was as favourable to Merlot as it was to Cabernet Franc. This immense wine is elegant and powerful, with a beautiful tannic texture and great length. It will long leave its mark on the history of Château Cheval Blanc.
Medium garnet color, bricked throughout, much sediment. Rich and sweet nose of baked pie of stone fruits and berries, with an enormous mix of mints, tobacco pouch, damp redwood, beef broth in there. On arrival, low tannin and delicately low acidity.
Les Vignots (2015)
Pommard “Les Vignots”
2015 was hot and dry at the beginning of the year and then cool during the ripening season. Due to the exceptional quality of the harvest throughout, there was no Petit Cheval produced in this vintage. The 2015 vintage wines are beautifully balanced and harmonious.
Deep, shiny, ruby red colour with violet hints. The nose is extraordinarily intense. A medley of fruit, flowers, spices and balsamic notes combines with a marked freshness resulting in a bouquet of rare complexity. The initial aromas are dominated by red fruits, raspberry, blackcurrant crush and subtle floral notes of lily and violet. A powerful, rich attack develops into a dense mid-palate enveloped in precise, clean, elegant, distinguished and persistent tannins. This wine is rich and full-bodied with an extremely long finish. Power, elegance and distinction combine to create a perfectly harmonious wine.