2021 book reviews – the eastern Mediterranean

Tamlyn Currin

Tuesday 25 January 2022

Tam's penultimate collection of reviews of books published (mainly) in 2021. One book on Lebanon; another, very different, book on Israel.

Chateau Musar
The story of a wine icon
Edited by Susan Keevil
Published by Académie du Vin Library
ISBN 9781913141042
£30

I thought I knew the story of Chateau Musar and Serge Hochar. I knew Musar had put Lebanese wine on the map, I’d heard he was quite a character, I knew he’d made wine during wartime and I knew his wines were iconic – if polarising. I thought that, having participated in the most amazing vertical of his...

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