L'Arack de Musar

It is customary to add water to Arack when serving as a digestif but with this particular Arack it can also be drunk without water.

The Chateau Musar Arack is made from grape alcohol with an average age of five years.It is distilled four times with the addition of anis seeds during the 4th distillation. It is then aged for one year in terracotta amphora’s which give off liquorice aromas, before being bottled.

In 1930, at just 20 years old, Gaston Hochar founded Chateau Musar, inspired by Lebanon's 6,000-year winemaking tradition and his travels in Bordeaux. His 'wines with noblesse' greatly impressed senior officers in the army following the French mandate of the 1920s. Major Ronald Barton, of Château Langoa-Barton, stationed in Lebanon during World War II, became a great friend, strengthening the links between Chateau Musar and Bordeaux that remain to this day.

The wines of Chateau Musar are unique expressions from a country with an ancient winemaking culture, as vines have been cultivated in Lebanon's high-altitude Bekaa Valley for over 6,000 years.