The Musar Jeune Rose provides a remarkbly sophisticated approach to modern Mediterranean pink wines. The winemakers craft this expression as a dry, lighter-coloured, and serious Rosé that is best enjoyed alongside food. The wine offers a smooth and rounded mouthfeel that immediate captures your attention. The complex bouquet reveals fragrant aromas of fresh raspberry, toasted almond, and crisp red apple skin. Furthermore, it concludes with a warm, satisfying finish that leaves a lasting impression on the palate.
Chateau Musar adopted an updated, innovative production method in 2015 to refine the wine’s elegance. The blend consists of 85% Cinsault—a classic Rhône grape Cinsault and 15% Mourvedre. Vineyard teams harvest these fruits from younger vines that growers planted after the year 2000. These unique blocks sit at an elevation of approximately 1,000 meters above sea level within Lebanon’s fertile Bekaa Valley. Therefore, the mountain climate exposes the grapes to warm days and cold nights, which allows the berries to develop concentrated flavors while maintaining a crisp, refreshing spine of acidity.
True to the estate’s natural philosophy, the cellar crew creates Musar Jeune Rose using a combination of the traditional ‘saignée’ (‘bleed’) method and direct pressing techniques. This process involves carefully removing the vibrant pink juice from the Cinsault and Mourvedre grape must early in the maceration cycle. Following this initial step, the liquid ferments slowly inside classic, cement-lined vats. Because the winemakers completely avoid oak contact, the wine preserves its raw, primary fruit characteristics. Finally, the estate bottles and releases the vintage completely unoaked exactly one year after the harvest, which ensures that its youthful freshness remains entirely intact.
You do not need to decant this youthful white wine before serving it to your guests. Instead, you can pour it straight from the bottle after chilling it down to an optimal temperature of 12°C. Because the profile offers crisp acidity and a clean texture, it pairs beautifully with baked salmon, shellfish, roast pork or tomato-based pasta dishes.
To keep your collection showing at its absolute best, you must store the bottles in complete darkness. Additionally, you should lay each bottle flat on its side to keep the natural cork moist and expanded. Finally, collectors must shield the wine from continuous floor vibrations, sudden movements, or rapid fluctuations in room temperature. Please visit our dedicated wine storing page to learn more about preserving your collection.
