2024 Mersel Lebnani Abyad 1L Country_South Africa and an almost cider-like quality

and an almost cider-like quality

Nicely balanced at 14

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Zippy red currant fruit

2024 Mersel Lebnani Abyad 1L Country_South Africa and an almost cider-like qualityMersel was a producer I discovered while studying some of the greatest wine lists in the US that I admired. Lebanese wine is inheritly compelling a melting pot of history and imperialism and perseverance through a perpetual wartime that little elsewhere in the world has experienced. To discover that Lebanon has indigenous grapes, as opposed to the more prolific production of French varietals throughout the region came as a surprise. This wine,