The Domaine Wardy of Bekaa Valley

Domaine Wardy - Obeideh
The winery offers 19 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 13 of the estates of Bekaa Valley.
It is located in Bekaa Valley

The Domaine Wardy is one of the world's great estates. It offers 19 wines for sale in of Bekaa Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Domaine Wardy wines

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

The top white wines of Domaine Wardy

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Domaine Wardy

How Domaine Wardy wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of country-style snow peas, pasta salmon - fresh cream or quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Domaine Wardy

On the nose the white wine of Domaine Wardy. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or non oak and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Domaine Wardy

  • 2007With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.82/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.75/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.69/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Domaine Wardy.

  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Viognier
  • Muscat 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 Domaine Wardy

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Domaine Wardy

How Domaine Wardy wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of fricandeaux german style, oriental stew with couscous or rabbit with mustard, thyme and cream.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Domaine Wardy

On the nose the red wine of Domaine Wardy. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, dark fruit or dried fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, red fruit or spices.

The best vintages in the red wines of Domaine Wardy

  • 2002With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.96/5
  • 2004With an average score of 3.89/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Domaine Wardy.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cinsault
  • Cabernet Franc

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

The top pink wines of Domaine Wardy

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Domaine Wardy

How Domaine Wardy wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of homemade italian lasagna, couscous without couscous maker or marinade for chicken brochettes.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Domaine Wardy

  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Domaine Wardy.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

The word of the wine: Village

Term used in certain regions to identify a particular sector within a larger appellation (Beaujolais, Côtes-du-Rhône).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Domaine Wardy

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 Domaine Wardy.

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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 bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

News about Domaine Wardy and wines from the region

EPI purchases Super Tuscan producer Isole e Olena

The De Marchi family established the 56ha estate back in 1956, and it is now firmly established as one of the region’s leading producers. Isole e Olena played a key role in reviving the quality of Chianti in the 1970s, and its flagship wine – Cepparello, a barrique-aged Sangiovese from old vines – is regarded as one of the original Super Tuscans. A Piedmont lawyer called Francesco De Marchi founded the business, but his visionary son – Paulo De Marchi – has driven its rise to prominence. He is r ...

‘Ultra-rare’ Olivier Bernstein jeroboam sells for £57,000

Cult Wines partnered with Olivier Bernstein to offer the ‘ultra-rare’ jeroboam from the 2017 vintage via its new CultX digital trading platform. An auction hammer price of £57,000 ($69,000) was just under the pre-sale high estimate of £60,000. Cult Wines said the jeroboam set a new benchmark price for Romanée-St-Vivant grand cru and was sold for the equivalent of £14,250 per 75cl bottle – again demonstrating the strength of the market for high-end Burgundy wines. ‘Given the scarcity ...

Vine trunks rise to meet climatic changes

While taller overall vines do exist in regions such as Galicia with their pergola training method, the roots of any vine usually top out at 37cm. It’s at this top point where the Vitis vinifera shoot is grafted in and continues to grow, giving us such grapes as Cabernet Sauvignon or Chardonnay. This is opposed to the rootstocks which are composed of various crosses of vines such as Vitis rupestris which aren’t used for wine production but are resistant to the root louse, phylloxera. This new tal ...

The word of the wine: Village

Term used in certain regions to identify a particular sector within a larger appellation (Beaujolais, Côtes-du-Rhône).