Wine
Back to the roots
Duncan Barry interviews Lebanese-born wine-maker and co-owner Faouzi Issa of Domaine des Tourelles wines – a 150-year-old winery in the Bekaa Valley that is cornering the foreign wine market over and above Lebanon’s with its selection – a variety that is bound to make it to your list of wine favourites, same as it did in the 101 wines to try before you die.
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Standing proud behind his fine selection of Domaine des Tourelles wines at leading wine importer and distributor P. Cutajar’s ‘The Store’, Faouzi, who was on a visit to Malta after a short stop in Germany, starts off by highlighting that one of his wines – Cinsault – has made it to the list of ‘101 Wines to Try Before You Die’.
Duncan Barry
The guide by award-winning author Margaret Rand selects wines to taste in a lifetime and includes prestigious wines of French and Californian wine-makers to lesser-known ones. The book features wines as costly as US$1,000 (€890) a bottle but the good thing is that Faouzi’s range is affordable to say the least.
