Château Kefraya - Wine - Lebanon


THE VINEXPO INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION - BORDEAUX FRANCE - 2007

Once again this year just like every two years since 1989, CHATEAU KEFRAYA’s team has gone to Bordeaux for the 2007 edition of the international exhibition of Vinexpo, the biggest convention of wine and spirits in the world. For the third consecutive time, the majority of Lebanese producers were present and united under the same “Lebanon” pavilion.


During the five days, CHATEAU KEFRAYA’s stand welcomed a multitude of international connoisseurs, producers and distributors who discovered, among other wines, the 2006 vintage of “Pleasure Wines” and Blanc de Blancs, product of the last harvest, miraculously picked few days after the end of the July – August 2006 hostility. The first question generally asked by our visitors was “how are you able to carry out your activities, despite the critical situation prevailing in Lebanon ever since 2005”? The answer being nothing could be worse than the war of 1975 to 1990, a period during which CHATEAU KEFRAYA was established in an unconscious surge filled with passion for wine-growing. CHATEAU KEFRAYA surely owes a great part of the success attained to the visitors of the exhibition, whom ever since 1989 have shown their confidence in the quality of its products coming from the Lebanese soil. Thus, it is a great pleasure to welcome them again and again every two years and to share with them this same passion in a friendly as well as brotherly atmosphere.



THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL WINE & SPIRITS FAIR 2006

In view of expanding its notoriety in the English market, CHATEAU KEFRAYA participated to the London International Wine and Spirits Fair 2006, from May 16 through 18, at the stand of its new distributing company, ENOTRIA WINECELLARS; the perfect occasion to meet with the very professional customers of ENOTRIA WINECELLARS, mainly composed of important restaurant owners and sommeliers. The interest and the appreciation expressed towards CHATEAU KEFRAYA products showed, once more, their great potential in the English market.


THE DIONYSALIES 2005

Every year, at an imprecise date of the month of October, the enchanting environment and unique character of Château Kefraya welcomed a festival of vine and wine, baptized "Dionysalies" to join homage to Dionysos - the Greek god of the vine and the suffix "alies" which means "exposition".


This year, 1200 people among of which the "Friends of Château Kefraya" precipitated to this festival after having impatiently awaited it during the twelve months of the year. Also present at this festival, the local and international distributors of Château Kefraya, in addition to politicians and members of the diplomatic corps.

Many festivities were held during this celebration. Guests wined and dined in a jazzy mood amongst pavilions, associating each wine with a culinary specialty presented to the guests. Other pavilions were devoted to the launching of the latest vintage of Kefraya such as the "Blanc de Blancs", the "Château Kefraya" and the legendary "Comte de M", with its mysterious name.


The "Dionysalies" were indeed the perfect occasion to announce the arrival and to sample the taste of the "Kefraya Nouveau", the new season's wine of Château Kefraya, which follows in the footsteps of the very popular "Beaujolais Nouveau" as well as the latest high range white wine of Château Kefraya, raised in oak barrels and named "Casta Diva"; evoking an extract of "Norma" by Vincenzo Bellini.

Finally, a pavilion dedicated to "Art and Culture" witnessed the varnishing by the painter herself Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui, of the painting selected to adorn this year's "Château Kefraya 2002" bottle label. Within this pavilion was also exposed the book entitled "Wines of Lebanon", the new reference par excellence of Lebanon's wine's world and Lebanon written by the journalist Michael Karam.

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THE EXCEL LONDON INTERNATIONAL WINE & SPIRITS FAIR - LONDON UK - MAY 2005

As every year, CHATEAU KEFRAYA team participated in May 2005, to the Excel ''London International Wine and Spirits Fair'' in the suburbs of London, where hundreds of experts and international wine admirers could discover its new vintages. The atmosphere was convivial and professional at the same time and it was the perfect occasion to present ''Casta Diva'' to the English public, namely CHATEAU KERAYA new white wine raised in oak tree barrels and pertaining to the category Vins de Prestige. The CHATEAU KEFRAYA ''saga'' continues….