The Château Heritage of Bekaa Valley

Château Heritage
The winery offers 19 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 10 of the estates of Bekaa Valley.
It is located in Bekaa Valley

The Château Heritage is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 19 wines for sale in of Bekaa Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Heritage wines

Looking for the best Château Heritage wines in Bekaa Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Heritage wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Château Heritage wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Heritage

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Heritage

How Château Heritage wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef tournedos with boursin, lamb chops à la champvallon or spaghetti all 'amatriciana.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Heritage

On the nose the red wine of Château Heritage. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, earthy or blackberry and sometimes also flavors of tobacco, vanilla or plum.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Heritage

  • 2003With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2006With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.07/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.03/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.93/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Heritage.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cinsault
  • Grenache
  • Tempranillo
  • Mourvedre

Discovering the wine region of Bekaa Valley

The Bekaa Valley is the heartland of modern Lebanese wine. Almost 90 percent of Lebanon's wine is made here, as is a respectable proportion of its Arak, the anise-flavored spirit that remains the nation's favorite alcoholic drink. The original Bekaa Valley Vineyards were planted with Cinsaut, which was subsequently joined by other French vine varieties. Most of these remain in Lebanon’s vinicultural makeup today: red Carignan, Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, and white Ugni Blanc, Clairette and Chardonnay.

The oldest winery in the area is Chateau Ksara, which was established by the Jesuit Christians of Taanayel (Tanail), an ancient monastic settlement just down the valley from Ksara. The first Vineyard there was planted in 1857, with plants brought from France via the colonies in Algeria. At that time Lebanon was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, whose Sharia law condemned the production or consumption of wine except for religious purposes. Thus the initial winery was very subdued, and it was not until the French took control of the country after WW1 (under the League of Nations' French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon) that Bekaa Valley wine production began to expand.

Chateau Musar, founded in 1930, is another Long-established estate in the valley and the most famous in global terms. A 1979 write-up in Decanter magazine by Michael Broadbent helped to Open up export markets. By 1990, the vast majority of their production left the country. This year marked the end of the Lebanese Civil War, which had lasted since 1975.

The top white wines of Château Heritage

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Heritage

How Château Heritage wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, game (deer, venison) or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) such as recipes of pasta carbonara, quick duck breast with honey or cucumber pie.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Château Heritage

On the nose the white wine of Château Heritage. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, tree fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Château Heritage

  • 2018With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2014With an average score of 2.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Heritage.

  • Viognier
  • Muscat Blanc
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Tempranillo

The black Tempranillo is a grape variety native to Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium-sized bunches and medium-sized grapes. The black Tempranillo can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

The top pink wines of Château Heritage

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Heritage

How Château Heritage wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of kamounia : tunisian beef stew, phad thai (thai style fried noodles) or salted king's cake with cauliflower.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Château Heritage

  • 2018With an average score of 4.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Château Heritage.

  • Carignan
  • Grenache

The word of the wine: Chaptalization

The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Heritage

Planning a wine route in the of Bekaa Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Heritage.

Discover the grape variety: Cinsault

Cinsaut noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Provence). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by large bunches and large grapes. Cinsaut noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

News about Château Heritage and wines from the region

The Mâcon plus appellation seen by Théo et Hugo Merlin

Théo and Paul Merlin are winegrowers at the Domaine Merlin, they emphasizes the characteristics of the appellation Mâcon La Roche Vineuse. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (March 2020). Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinsdebourgogne/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bivb​​ Find out more on our website: https://www.bourgogn ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Bussières

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Bussières, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneW ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Mancey

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Mancey, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWine ...

The word of the wine: Chaptalization

The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.