The Chateau Marsyas of Bekaa Valley

Chateau Marsyas
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 7 of the estates of Bekaa Valley.
It is located in Bekaa Valley

The Chateau Marsyas is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Bekaa Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Chateau Marsyas wines

Looking for the best Chateau Marsyas wines in Bekaa Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Chateau Marsyas 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 Chateau Marsyas wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Chateau Marsyas

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Chateau Marsyas

How Chateau Marsyas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese, tagliatelle courgette salmon from cécile and lisa or chicken and shrimp jambalaya.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Chateau Marsyas

On the nose the white wine of Chateau Marsyas. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, non oak or grapefruit and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit, citrus fruit or tree fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Chateau Marsyas

  • 2014With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Chateau Marsyas.

  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc

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 red wines of Chateau Marsyas

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Chateau Marsyas

How Chateau Marsyas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of blanquette of monkfish with small vegetables, meatballs catalan style or oven roasted rabbit with mustard.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Chateau Marsyas

On the nose the red wine of Chateau Marsyas. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, spices or dark fruit and sometimes also flavors of cedar, non oak or earth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Chateau Marsyas

  • 2014With an average score of 4.13/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.09/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.01/5
  • 2013With 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 Chateau Marsyas.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Merlot
  • Mourvedre

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Chateau Marsyas

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 Chateau Marsyas.

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

News about Chateau Marsyas and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Maceration

Prolonged contact and exchange between the juice and the grape solids, especially the skin. Not to be confused with the time of fermentation, which follows maceration. The juice becomes loaded with colouring matter and tannins, and acquires aromas. For a rosé, the maceration is short so that the colour does not "rise" too much. For white wines too, a "pellicular maceration" can be practised, which allows the wine to acquire more fat.