Meet the Winemaker - Saturday 5th July 11am - 4pm

Meet Sami Ghosn, 2nd Generation Owner of Tanaïl Winery, Lebanon on Saturday 5th July from 11am to 4pm.

Take this opportunity to taste their beautiful wines. Please see below for details of the wines that will be available to taste.

Massaya, “Twilight” is the brainchild of two dynamic Lebanese brothers who have harnessed the potential of their fabulous terroir to the know-how of two French wine-making dynasties. Since Biblical times, Lebanon has been acclaimed for its prized Bekaa Valley wines.

Today, this bijou winery, with its clay-limestone vineyards, nestled between the mountains and the Mediterranean at more than a thousand meters, produce a range of unique wines that captures the spirit of the Levant.The story of Tanaïl Property goes back to the early 70's as the Ghosn family acquired an Estate planted with table vines. At First, they made homemade Arak from the grapes grown on the property.

Sami and Ramzi Ghosn, the second generation owners, learned to love nature and its greatest produce - wine - during their childhood; in 1975, the civil war raged in Lebanon forcing the Ghosn’s to leave their Estate, nevertheless they always knew a day will come where they would return.

Seventeen years later Sami Ghosn, by then an architect working in Los Angeles, returned to Lebanon and revisited the war-ravaged family estate. The land worked its magic and he decided to give up everything in order to devote himself to bringing the domain back to life. He revived the distillation of homemade arak and entrusted marketing to his brother Ramzi, who was at that time settled in France, managing his own restaurant company. The famous blue bottles of Arak turned into an instant success.

Tanail was reborn from its ashes but Sami Ghosn had still greater ambitions. As far as he is concerned it is no coincidence that the Romans chose the Bekaa Valley as the site to build the temple of Bacchus in homage to their God of wine and grapes.

We will be tasting:

TANAIL WINERY Classic White 'Massaya' 2006

TANAIL WINERY Classic Rose 'Massaya' 2006
TANAIL WINERY Silver Selection Red 2004
TANAIL WINERY Gold Reserve Red 'Massaya' 2003/04
EL MASSAYA Arak

DON'T MISS OUT ON THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET SAMI AND TRY THESE FANTASTIC WINES AND THERE WILL BE SPECIAL PRICES TOO FOR THIS DAY ONLY!!