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Wine, Music and mood matching

Chateau Musar 2002, Lebanon.

You’re feeling cheeky, rock ‘n’ roll, missing your youth a little bit yet enjoying a little more money. You pop on ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ by the Stones and strut down to your cellar howling out ‘Whooo … whooo’. There’s only one wine that will fit this mood, only one wine that will deal with this song - Chateau Musar 2002.

It’s showing a little age - so there’s a little leather on the nose along with an exotic and truly unique comination on ripe red fruits, blackberries and something that reminds me of a certain incense stick my ex girlfriend would burn when my luck was in. In the mouth it’s both sweet, savoury and something hovering on sour - I love it. Swill it round the mouth, smooth along to a great Stones tune and plow on out for an evening once you’ve nailed a couple of glasses.

It’s odd, it’s from Lebanon for heaven’s sake, and is truly unique. Like Sympathy for the Devil it taps its own tune - unlike the Stones though … it does get better with age.

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5 Comments so far (Add 1 more)

  1. I favour wine with my wine, personally.

    1. Lord Likely on August 7th, 2007 at 2:34 am
  2. I’m keen to try the bin (laden) (1) 2006 Lebanese war Chateau Musar with added plutonium depleted shell sh*t and lead ingress from the departing Syrian troop lorries.

    I can tell you this. 1988 Chateau Musar versus 1999 is no contest.

    One is goddamn hezbollah! I shall leave you to guess which.

    2. SAHD on August 4th, 2007 at 1:10 am
  3. Robert - you are quite right, it was far too young. But I think that’s part of the charm, and part of why it’s Sympathy for the Devil - there’s something very cheeky and decadent about approaching it now!

    Chris - very funny

    3. ploop on August 3rd, 2007 at 7:51 am
  4. wine and rock?

    Sure, I guess if you are in your 30’s, you are female, you and your lady friends got a box of wine and you are tailgating outside a Dave Matthews concert.

    On a side note do they sell boxes of wine in Europe?

    hehe

    4. Chris C on August 3rd, 2007 at 3:11 am
  5. Woah! Careful there Daddy-o

    Chateau Musar 2002 is still a child in nappies. You want to be drinking the 2001, or even better the 1999.

    That’s like getting into the Stones by only listening to their latest release and not having any idea about their back-catalogue

    Maybe a wine appreciation graph is called for - how about intensity and complexity of the olfactory and degustatory experience vs. the increasing age of the Chateau Musar bottling? It might produce an elegant rising curve, a level plateau, then a gentle decline into old age.

    Damn! You’ve made me want to crack open my own bottle of the 99 and it is FAR too late to do it justice.

    5. robert@thirstforrioj on August 1st, 2007 at 9:16 pm

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