The Chateau Marsyas of Bekaa Valley | Winedexer

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 basque piperade, codfish portuguese style or wok of pointed cabbage with shrimps and lemongrass bo bun style.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Chateau Marsyas

On the nose the white wine of Chateau Marsyas. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, tropical or citrus and sometimes also flavors of apples, peach or butter.

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

Lebanese high-altitude valley (~1,000 m), ~6,000 years of winegrowing, ~90% of the country's wine. Complex, age-worthy reds with signature notes of black cherry, blackberry, garrigue, leather, cedar, oriental spices and a balsamic touch, firm tannins and long ageing — Cabernet for backbone, supple Cinsault, dense Carignan, fruity Grenache, peppery Syrah. Native whites Merwah and Obaideh, taut and mineral. Iconic Chateau Musar.

~300 days of sun. Oriental Mediterranean wines.

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 tata simone's dumplings, moroccan lamb stew or veal head with vinaigrette.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Chateau Marsyas

On the nose the red wine of Chateau Marsyas. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or smoke and sometimes also flavors of earthy, blackberry or blueberry.

The best vintages in the red wines of Chateau Marsyas

  • 0With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 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

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Merlot
  • Mourvedre

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.

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Discover the grape variety: Mourvèdre

Powerful, deep reds with firm tannins and dense texture, showing aromas of blackberry, leather, garrigue, black pepper, liquorice and animal notes (game, forest floor) with age. Star of Bandol AOC as a single variety and pillar of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas and Costières blends. Also in GSM in Languedoc and Australia. A late-ripening variety of Spanish origin (Mataró/Monastrell).