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🍇 Organic & native grapes - minimal intervention wine
❄️ High altitude cool climate viticulture
🇱🇧 Wadi Qannoubine & Maksar Mersel regions

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My pantelleria, so apparently we’ve been growing vines for sometime and we have lots of old vines, just incase your wondering where? #LEBANON taken in Lebanon by @merselwine

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Säg hej till Eddie och Michelle Chami från @merselwine som hälsade på i Stockholm förra veckan. Ekologisk odling, inhemska druvor och sparsamt med svavel kännetecknar vinerna från familjens 150 åriga stockar som odlas på hög höjd i norra Libanon.

Våra viner från @merselwine kan du bla dricka på @falafelbaren
@marieantoinettemalmo
@beirutcafestockholm
@occorestaurant
@cafeharpaviljongen
@morahotell

Big thanks to Eddie and Michelle for a great visit.
Tusen tack @falafelbaren för ett grymt fredagsmys;)
See you soon👋. by @merselwine

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As part of this year’s LOW Margate, on Saturday we’ll be pouring Mersel Lebnat Red, a delicious natural red pet nat from Lebanon made with 100% Cinsault.

There will also be a short Lebanese-inspired snack menu - available to all, but with a special combo offer for LOW wristband holders 🍷

Open from 12 noon ‘til late. £1 from every bar snack donated to @kentrefugee_kran

Snack menu

Gilda Lebanese
Babaganoush + olive oil crisps
Labneh + roasted grapes
7-spice focaccia

@merselwine
@lowmargate by @merselwine

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A family portrait - there’s something of a constellation of wines being produced at the 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗘𝗟 winery in Bcharre, Lebanon. They’re as much a look to the future of Lebanese winemaking as they are an ode to the country’s 7,000 year (or more) old history with the grape vine.

Winemaker Eddie Chami has been resurrecting nearly forgotten varieties from the North of Lebanon from which he produces culturally significant wines using both modern and ancient techniques. He’s also gathering a family of like-minded people working together - The Factory, but situated in the mountains of Lebanon rather than a Soho loft and looking toward a new chapter of wines from the Arabic-speaking world. taken in Albi DC by @merselwine

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We’re not one to drop wine posts anymore usually, but after anticipating this delivery for over a year now, we feel this dear project deserves it like no other: last summer we visited Claudine in Lebanon, who welcomed us so warmly, showed us around, told us about their ancestral working method, their farms and about how they continued to work on their lands, amidst threats of zionist occupation and even as their agression intensified in the invasion of 2024.

we’re delighted that after much hardship and time passed, a limited batch of this beautiful wine from @merselwine named Jaffa Crush is now on our menu. We’d like to quote Eddie himself as nobody can describe this wine better:

Jaffa crush was born out of stolen identity, stolen land and stolen fruit. Jaffa is Haifa, Haifa is the home of the Shamouti Orange, in Arabic: برتقال شموطي, a variety developed by Arab farmers in the 19th century.

Merwah 70% Muscat 30%, the Muscat is carbonic fermented in a bath of Merwah juice. It’s a citrus bomb, at 11.5% abv.

Very little quantity as it’s being drank by friends to alleviate stress and cure hangovers. No oranges are used to make this wine, just grapes, and tears of pain since October 23’, when this wine was conceived.

special shoutout to @viviansauvage for making it happen - and as we write this, we emphasise that the zio/nist entity’s agression has worsened to new levels in the past months, while major news outlets don’t write about this, or like you to believe there is a “cease/fire” in place, beirut continues to be bom/bed as the beqaa valley and the south of lebanon are being ethnically cleansed, with over a million displaced. We urge you to read our call for donations, action and solidarity and donate via our bio.

Also make sure to follow @merselwine and @heyawines to support local farmers who continue to tend to their lands, while doing so resisting occupation forces with their soil, labour and bodies every day. by @merselwine

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2 months ago

A spring week in no particular order or weather, but always happy to welcome snow and rain! taken in Lebanon by @merselwine

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3 months ago

Brutal spring 🌼 taken in Bousit by @merselwine

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3 months ago

Elevate, from Mersel. 🏔️🐐

In Lebanon, the mountains are everthimg. These come from high up in the Lebanese mountains—old vines, indigenous grapes, crazy altitude. You feel it right away. The air’s cooler, the light’s different, everything slows down just enough to drive home your on higher ground—and it all shows up in the glass.

The mountains in Lebanon aren’t just scenery—they protect. They always have. People have gone up there to escape war, to find relief from brutal heat waves. to hold onto something stable when everything else isn’t. They carry history, memory, and a kind of resilience that’s hard to explain unless you’ve been.

Even now, they’re under pressure again. And still, they stand.

That energy comes through in these wines. There’s tension, freshness, nothing overworked—just honest bottles that feel alive and grounded at the same time.

And yeah—the juice is dope.

Keep an eye out for these. by @merselwine

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Ons lange wachten werd beloond; ook de schitterende wijnen van @merselwine bereikten onze winkel!

Bij Mersel Wine verweven ze de eeuwenoude wijncultuur in hun wijnen. Net als de Libanese cultuur zijn die warm, gastvrij en gepassioneerd. Ze creëren toegankelijke wijnen die het Libanese karakter weerspiegelen en tegelijk lokale boeren (inclusief vrouwen en hun families) ondersteunen. Wijn van de mensen - voor de mensen.

Ren naar de winkel want de voorraad is beperkt en deze moet je geproefd hebben! 🌞 in je glas!

@merselwine #lebanesewine #naturalwines #naturalwinelover #newinstore #wonderfulwines by @merselwine

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The beginning of grape domestication and the development of fermentation techniques can be traced back over 8,000 years into the Caucuses. Over time, this knowledge made its way down to Phoenicia in modern day Lebanon. The Phoenicians are credited with establishing the wine industry through trade routes around the Mediterranean, influencing the greater Levant, North Africa, Greece, Sicily, Southern Spain, and France. Transporting wine and other liquids in clay jars, they popularized the use of amphora throughout the region as a wine vessel. The fertile soils of Phoenicia lended themselves well domestication and breeding of grapes, which they then spread throughout their colonies and along their traderoutes.

Empires rise and fall. When the Phoenicians were long gone, after conquering the Greeks, the Romans returned to Phoenicia. They found terraced vineyards and fertile land. They erected their temple to the god of wine, Bacchus, in the Bekaa Valley.

Eddie Chami of Mersel Wine preserves the history of his ancestry through his exploration of what it means to make a Lebanese Wine with Lebanese identity. Mediterranean climate and the Bekaa Valley, along with 2200m altitude, where grapes grow along with Cedar trees. Mersel works with native grapes like merwah and traditional grapes like sangiovese and muscat. An organic approach in the vineyards, a light hand in the cellar, and amphora aging where appropriate are a tribute to the ancient practices that inspire Mersel.

After helping with Mersel, Michelle and Claudine started Heya Wines, meaning woman in Arabic. They experiment with grapes and apples, and encourage gender equality by spotlighting the often unseen and underpaid women in the vineyards. Michell and Claudine take photos during harvest to spotlight these women and their contributions as labels on the wine. @heyawines @merselwine @terra_sancta_wines_and_spirits @jahdemarley.drinks taken in Lebanon by @merselwine

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4 months ago

Under the snow wearing her white dress #coolclimateviticulture taken in Dimane by @merselwine

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Distilling some emotions these days! Apparently we make an arak! taken in Dimane by @merselwine

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