Private Wine Tour | Chateau Musar & Ixsir Winery from Beirut

There are wine tours — and then there is this. Two of Lebanon's most celebrated and internationally acclaimed wineries in a single private day along the Mediterranean coast north of Beirut, ending with an optional lunch in one of the oldest cities on earth. Chateau Musar needs no introduction to serious wine lovers. Its flagship red has been poured in Michelin-starred restaurants across Europe and America and described by critics as one of the most complex and age-worthy wines produced anywhere on earth. The story of how founder Serge Hochar continued making wine throughout the Lebanese Civil War — at one point held at gunpoint while transporting his harvest — is the stuff of wine legend. From Musar the tour continues north to Ixsir — one of the most architecturally stunning wineries in the Middle East, built into 400-year-old terraced hillsides above the Mediterranean. Two completely different estates, two completely different stories, one unforgettable day.