Mersel Wine "Lebnani Ahmar" 2020

Made with the intention to show the world the beauty of Lebanese history and culture, the Lebnani series is a gorgeous still wine of red and skin contact. All unfined, unfiltered, made with love and packaged in 1L bottles, giving an incredible value.  

Hand-harvested and destemmed into a concrete tank. The tank is then sealed and a native fermentation slowly goes on for up to two weeks at 25 degrees celsius. The skins are pressed off and the fermentation continues for an additional week. The wine is then left to go through malolactic fermentation.

Lebanon is among the oldest sites in wine production in the world. Eddie Chami, the winemaker at Mersel Wine was also one of the winemakers at Couvent Rouge. He holds a degree in Viticulture and Enology at UC Davis, California.

For anyone that knows and speaks to Eddie, you will know that making wine is not a hobby or job, it is a deep-rooted passion. He is passionate about winemaking, as well as preserving and reviving the land of our ancestors and the winemaking techniques used many, many years ago.

Eddie wanted to make wine that is not mainstream in Lebanon. Being born and raised in Australia, he doesn’t speak French and didn’t want to associate Mersel with the French influence in winemaking. He just wanted to make some f'n good wine. His passion is to develop wine using local Lebanese indigenous grape varieties but something not common locally.