2017 Château Ksara Réserve du Couvent

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 89.4 points

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  8/8/2021 - SixHedgehogs Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Purple, lovely spicy aroma, black fruits and herbs flavour. Long, smooth aftertaste. Very fine. Decanted for two hours in advance.

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  2/23/2021 - N515CR wrote: 89 Points

  Needs at least 30-60min to breathe, then it's a very nice drink. Paired nicely with a ribeye.

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  1/20/2021 - Tpairing wrote: 89 Points

  Wine with blackberry, pepper, earth and its bold. - low acidity with long finish.

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  10/28/2020 - shallIshantI Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Very impressed with this wine. Others have noted the unusual cepage. The outstanding feature is that strong blackcurrant on both the palate and nose, especially as you breathe out. Both of these last quite a long time. Just a bit of harshness left - the drinking window is now to 2 years from now, peaking in about 6-12 months. Suggest pair with hearty stews.

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  10/9/2020 - NoahCap wrote:

  What an odd wine...not in a bad way, just odd. To start with, the blend is very unusual with nearly equal parts Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Cabernet Franc. It's dark, spicy, and earthy, like a Rhone/Bordeaux hybrid as you might expect. It might be purely psychological knowing it's from Lebanon, but I smell an undefinable spiced exoticism, kind of like Turmeric, jasmine rice, cinnamon, and raisins, all mixed up, as a top note. It lacks a bit of concentration, but its tasty nonetheless and worth the $20 or so I spent.
  
  But I really say this wine is odd bc of its unexpected fragility. Syrah and the two cabernets are not exactly known as fragile varietals. Coupled with the middle eastern climate, I expected a firm, muscular, intense wine that would develop with air, especially since this wine is only 3 years old. Out of curiosity, I poured about 1/3 of the bottle into a decanter, and left the cork off the rest of the bottle for an hour. Surprisingly, the wine straight out of the bottle was much more enjoyable, with a subtle fruitiness, richness, and complexity that an hour in the decanter destroyed. In comparison, the decanter wine was tepid and uninspired; serviceable with food but I might as well have been drinking Barefoot. This may taste like N Rhone/Bordeaux, but the wine behaves like a fragile old Burgundy. Be careful with it, and it'll be worth your while.

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