The Winery Iris Domain of Mount Lebanon

Winery Iris Domain - Red Blend
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Mount Lebanon.
It is located in Mount Lebanon

The Winery Iris Domain is one of the best wineries to follow in Mount Lebanon.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Mount Lebanon to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Iris Domain wines

Looking for the best Winery Iris Domain wines in Mount Lebanon among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Iris Domain 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 Winery Iris Domain wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Iris Domain

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Iris Domain

How Winery Iris Domain wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beer goulash, chaouia lamb or candied gizzards.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Iris Domain

On the nose the red wine of Winery Iris Domain. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Iris Domain

  • 2011With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Iris Domain.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Mount Lebanon

Lebanon is a Middle Eastern country with an ancient wine culture that has experienced a renaissance in the past few decades. In 2011, roughly six million bottles of Lebanese wine were produced from 2000 hectares (5000 acres) of Vineyards. Modern Lebanese viniculture has moved away from the ancient Phoenician port cities and inland to the fertile Bekaa Valley. There are also a handful of vineyards near Jezzine, a few miles beyond the Southern end of the Bekaa, just inland of Sidon.

The majority of Lebanese wine is exported to the UK, France and the US, where the receptive consumer bases have encouraged healthy growth in Lebanon's modern wine industry. In 1998, there were fewer than 10 wineries in Lebanon; now there are more than 30. Red wines account for most of the output; these are usually made from the classic wine grapes of southern France; Carignan, Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. White wines may feature Ugni Blanc, Clairette and Chardonnay.

The modern wine industry here can be traced back to the 19th Century. As non-Muslims living in a Muslim state – Part of the Ottoman Empire since the 1500s – Christians living in Lebanon were permitted certain freedoms, one of which was the right to make wine for ceremonial purposes. It was on this basis that, in 1857, a group of Jesuit priests founded a winery in Ksara, a small town in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon's finest wine Terroir. Chateau Ksara warrants its own chapter in the annals of Lebanese wine history.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Iris Domain

Planning a wine route in the of Mount Lebanon? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Iris Domain.

Discover the grape variety: Muscat cendré

Muscat cendré blanc is a grape variety that originated in France (Languedoc). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. Muscat cendré white can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire valley, Jura, Champagne, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Languedoc & Roussillon.

News about Winery Iris Domain and wines from the region

Louis-Fabrice Latour: Obituary

Latour was the 11th generation of his family to lead Maison Louis Latour (and the seventh named Louis Latour). The house of Latour was formally founded in 1797, although the roots go back to the first vineyards purchased in 1731 by Denis Latour. The Latour family originally worked as coopers, and Denis’ son Jean moved to Aloxe-Corton to set up an independent cooperage and later to found Maison Louis Latour, naming the business after his son. The house of Latour remains closely associated with th ...

Bordeaux 2022 harvest: Vintage looks ‘very promising’

A ‘very promising’ vintage is expected, said the regional wine council (CIVB), as the Bordeaux 2022 harvest gets underway for reds. It’s still too early to judge fully and yields will be lower in some cases following heat, drought and also hailstorms during the growing season, yet the CIVB cited ‘attractive but small berries’ and healthy vineyard conditions during the crucial flowering period and for harvest. Europe has seen early starts to wine harvests in 2022 and the C ...

St-Emilion 2022 classification promotes Château Figeac to Premier Grand Cru Classé A

St-Emilion’s Wine Council announced its eagerly-anticipated ranking this afternoon, bringing a decade of disputes and court battles to an end. The classification awards Premier Grand Cru Classé A status to just two producers, while it also recognises 12 Premier Grands Crus Classés (B) and 71 Grands Crus Classés. These rankings can cause a winery’s value to soar – they have been likened to the Michelin guide for restaurants – so winemakers across the region awaited the results with bated breath t ...

The word of the wine: Fleshy

Said of a wine that gives the impression of being dense and smooth, a bit like biting into the flesh of a ripe fruit.