Massaya Beqaa Valley Gold Reserve 2012 Wine Seminar Red and blue fruit leap

Red and blue fruit leap from the glass alongside notes of cherry

and the Zinfandel is one of the standouts

Jerome Prevost made sure that's no longer true

and know that it will keep for decades

savory and nutty in the background

Massaya Beqaa Valley Gold Reserve 2012 Wine Seminar Red and blue fruit leapAt 13 years old, the 2012 Gold Reserve is the mature flagship of Massaya's Lebanese range, and it is drinking beautifully right now. This is the wine where Sami and Ramzi Ghosn's French partners, the Bruniers of Vieux Telegraphe and Dominique Hebrard of Cheval Blanc, lean into a Bordelais frame: half Cabernet Sauvignon, with Mourvedre and Syrah filling out the body, aged nine months in new French oak. Time in bottle has done its work. The fruit has