Comte de M 1999

Chateau Kefraya (Lebanon)

Cabernet Sauvignon (50%), Syrah (50%)
Red Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✭

Simply a great wine. It shows a beautiful and intense ruby red color with nuances of garnet red, little transparency. The nose is rich of aromas, great personality and very clean as well as elegant. There can be perceived good aromas of black cherry, blueberry, plum and black currant followed by clean aromas of cocoa, eucalyptus, licorice, anise, tobacco, vanilla and a hint of wood aromas. The mouth reveals a good correspondence to the nose and, despite of a tannic attack, tannins already have a good agreeability and the wine is surely balanced by alcohol. A full bodied wine. Finish is persistent with pleasing and intense flavors of black cherry and raspberry. A truly elegant wine and very well made; no matter it can be drunk in its current state, it will give its best with a further period of aging of some years. This wine is aged in barrique for 12 months.
Alcohol: 14.3%
Game, Stewed meat, Braised meat, Hard cheese, Roasted meat
Suggested glass	18 °C (64 °F)
(Full Bodied and Very Mature Red Wines)
Issue 4, January 2003