Beirut

9:00 AM — Departure from Beirut Your private driver collects you from your Beirut hotel and heads north along the Mediterranean coastal highway — Chateau Musar is just 30 minutes away in Ghazir, perched above the sea in a 17th-century castle that has been making wine since 1930.

Walk into the 17th-century castle that houses one of the world's most legendary wine estates. Founded in 1930 by Gaston Hochar and brought to international fame by his son Serge — who introduced Musar to the world at the Bristol Wine Fair in 1979 to instant critical acclaim — the estate produces wines of extraordinary complexity from Cabernet Sauvignon, Cinsault, and Carignan grapes grown in the Bekaa Valley. The guided cellar tour takes you through the historic stone cellars where wine ages for years before release, and the tasting that follows is unlike any other wine experience in Lebanon — a structured exploration of what makes Musar so utterly distinctive, so deeply Lebanese, and so unlike anything else in the wine world. For anyone who has ever opened a bottle of Musar and wondered where it came from — this is the answer.