2016 Château Musar Blanc, Bekaa Valley, LebanonABOUT THIS WINE The 2016 harvest showed without doubt that global warming is causing higher annual temperatures and at the same time, successive years of low rainfall have resulted in drier soils. We were therefore thankful for a good amount of rainfall in the first few months of the year and much needed snow in January which was hugely welcomed by the dry terrain. This year was warm with an average night temperature of + 5 degrees Celsius compared to

Hope Family Wines consists of five individual brands: Liberty School

25 hectares of clay-loam-sandy soil with limestone

Alisa Barry opened a café in Atlanta to share her passion for cooking and eating as an artful ritual

he adopted ideas that were starting to become accepted in other parts of France but were still considered heretical by Champagne’s establishment

Part of the vineyard was planted in 1937 and this is the section that the EL wine comes from

and ultimately negate the use of chemical herbicides

Holds 3 standard bottles

full malolactic

the wine ferments spontaneously in concrete vats

In Patagonia

The vines grow on limestone soils covered with white pebble stones

made up of subalpine sands composed of limestone and silica