Chateau Kefraya Rouge 2000

Chateau Kefraya (Lebanon)

Cabernet Sauvignon (39%), Mourvèdre (18%), Carignan (18%), Cinsaut (14%), Grenache (11%)
Red Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✭

The wine has a beautiful and intense ruby red color with nuances which already tend to garnet red, little transparency. The nose denotes an olfactory profile pretty rich and complex, of good personality and very clean. There can be perceived aromas of black cherry, black cherry jam, cherry, strawberry, raspberry, black currant followed by aromas of caper, cloves and boletus mushroom. The attack to the mouth is tannic and alcoholic, however balanced, with a good correspondence to the nose and of good body. The finish is persistent with pleasing flavors of black cherry and black currant. A wine which still shows its youth and that could improve with some year of aging, anyway the wine can be drunk even now. The wine is produced with maceration of skins for 4 weeks followed by a 12 month of aging in cask.
Alcohol: 14%
Broiled meat and barbecue, Sauteed meat, Roasted meat, Hard cheese
Suggested glass	17 °C (62 °F)
(Young Red Wines)
November 2002