Mersel Phoenix Skin Contact Merwah Lebanon 2023 Savennieres La Roche aux Moines polished aftertaste with sweet tobacco

polished aftertaste with sweet tobacco flavors

Readers will find a wine of uncommon depth

A fine and balanced white

A blend of 90 per cent merlot and ten per cent cabernet sauvignon

Mersel Phoenix Skin Contact Merwah Lebanon 2023 Savennieres La Roche aux Moines polished aftertaste with sweet tobaccoThis "Phoenix" skin contact cuve is made from such centenarian vines. It's organically farmed, own rooted, and planted on sandy volcanic soils in the cooler climate Wadi Qannoubine Valley at 1300 meters above sea level. This is an area where many of the vineyards went untended for decades due to war, land mines, and people simply leaving the country. Three weeks on the skins in a mix of steel and amphora, it's lightly orange in color but retaines