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Château Musar is a Lebanese winery located in the south of the Bekaa Valley, about thirty kilometers southeast of Beirut, near the villages of Aana and Kefraya, where the limestone soils covered with gravel are perfectly suited to vines.
The red wines are made from the Cabernet Sauvignon, Cinsault and Carignan grape varieties and are produced with low yields of around 15 to 35 hl/ha depending on the vintage. The white wines are made from the very old autochthonous grape varieties, Obaideh and Merwah, planted at higher altitudes around 1500 meters.
The first vines were certified organic in 2006 and since then, the estate has advocated natural vinification without intervention.
Château Musar was founded in 1930 by Gaston Hochar when he was only 20 years old, inspired by the 6000 years of history of viticulture in Lebanon and his many travels in the Bordeaux vineyards. While Lebanon was still under the protectorate of France, Gaston Hochar's first wines impressed French general officers. From the Second World War onwards, ties with Bordeaux were strengthened thanks to exchanges with the soldiers present in Lebanon, some of whom had Bordeaux origins, such as Colonel Ronald Barton of Château Langoa-Barton, a grand cru classé of Saint-Julien in the Médoc.
Serge, Gaston Hochar's eldest son, then turned to oenology, which he studied at the University of Bordeaux under the aegis of Emile Peynaud, and took charge of winemaking at the estate in 1959. He stubbornly continued to produce superb wines, even during the dark years of civil war between 1975 and 1990. In 1994, his son Gaston joined the estate, followed in 2010 by his second son Marc. When Serge Hochar died in 2014, Ronald Hochard took over the reins of the estate.
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