THE ENCHANTING TALE BEHIND THE ALOUETTE LABELI was 10 years old... On an October afternoon I was helping my father in the winery, which overlooks our garden. Suddenly, a bird fell from a pomegranate tree. I rushed to its aid, but my father smiled: “My son, the bird is not wounded! It just got drunk because of the fermented pomegranate.”

“Fermented pomegranate?” I asked. “Yes, just like our grapes!

Anyway, the bird is now sleeping happily,” he said. An hour later, the refreshed bird woke up and flew right back to the pomegranate, ready to take a fresh sip, singing the beautiful tune of nature!

Narrated by Salim Nakad Founder of Chateau NAKAD

Arak As-SamirArack As-Samir is a special pure Arack, made from the best grapes of the Bekaa and anise seeds. It is distilled three times and aged two years in clay jars.

CUVÉE L’ALOUETTEThis intense and aromatic wine is full of crispy and savory fruits with ripe and soft tannins. Cépage: Cinsault, Cabernet-Sauvignon, Carignan.

PRESTIGE DES COTEAUXThis cuvée, with its dark garnet hue, boasts balance and ripeness. It leaves in your mouth nice aromas of mulberries, dark cherries, spices and incense, typical of Levantine wines.Cépage: Cabernet-Sauvignon, Syrah, Merlot.

CHÂTEAU DES COTEAUXThis cuvée is a plot selection of vineyards in the Bekaa hills. Picked at full maturity and aged for 12 months in French oak barrels, this great wine is a perfect blend of the terroir, the vine, the barrels and the winemaker.Cépage: Cabernet-Sauvignon, Syrah.

ROSÉ SELECTA beautiful and colourful rosé, crispy and fresh, with nice hints of strawberry. A genuine lebanese rosé wine.Cépage: Syrah, Cabernet-Sauvigon, Cinsault.

BLANC DE BLANCSThis wine comes from old vines of the Bekaa. It is refined and has complex aromas of exotic fruits and white flowers. It pairs perfectly with poultry, spiced meals, fish and sea food.Cépage: Clairette, Sauvignon Blanc, Viognier.

VIN DOUXThis is a sweet fortified wine from Clairette and Viognier grapes hand- picked overripen on the vine. Its golden colour and great sugar concentration makes it a perfect pairing for aperitifs and desserts.Cépage: Clairette, Viognier.

EXPRESSION UNIQUEWe selected the grapes for that special micro-cuvee for their ripeness, strong concentration of sugar and their high phenolic maturity. The result is a wine that gives you a lot of red fruit bouquet on the nose and a full round mouth very silky and exceptionally long.

This unique cuvée has produced only 100 bottles in 2012.

AFANDELLO. CITRUS LIQUEURWell, what can we say about this drink ? It is about as unique as it gets, that’s for sure! A citrus liqueur, made from the Lebanese Afendé fruit along with other agrumes, and created by Château Nakad’s very own son, Jalal, in 2012. Using the citrus peel, a special taste of fruit and nature is encapsulated in this artisanal Limoncello from the Bekaa! Fresh, sweet and fruity, AFANDELLO is to be tasted alone with crushed ice or as a cocktail.

MISK. FINEST MASTIHA LIQUEUR

THE HISTORY OF CHÂTEAU NAKADThe story of Château Nakad is first and foremost that of a family, of three generations of winemakers from the Bekaa Valley, whose blood runs with passion for soil, wine and grapes.

In 1923, during the French Mandate in Lebanon, Joseph Nakad’s wine became a favourite among France’s deployed soldiers. The contingent commissioned large quantities of his fresh and lively vintages to lift the spirits of the troops. Then, his son Salim took over the business. In his hands Château Nakad became one of the leading enterprises on the Lebanese wine scene.

Today, Joseph’s grandchildren, guided by their father Salim, are ensuring the prosperity of the label, consolidating its reputation both within Lebanon and on the international wine market.

The winery is located in the village of Jdita/Chtaura, in the Bekaa Valley, near the most fertile farmlands of the region. More importantly, it is built on the remains of wine cellars dating back to the Bronze Age.

The Nakad family currently produces red, rosé, white and sweet wine as well as the traditional Lebanese anisette liquor, Arack As-Samir. Another outstanding recent creation is the winery’s very own Afandello, an artisanal orange-flavoured liquor. Another recent masterpiece, is the MISK, a mastiha liquor.

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OUR PASSION FOR WINE MAKING,IS NOW PASSED TO THE THIRD GENERATION.