An Englishman's Castle

In my previous post on the Levantine war - An Englishman's Castle: In the land of Canaa - I mentioned that:

my main worry is what is happening to the vineyards that supply Serge Hochar with the grapes for the wonderful Château Musar wines, if this year's harvest is disrupted then that would be a disaster.

So I'm delighted to note:

Telegraph | News | Women rescue Lebanon's wine after fighting threatens to ruin harvest

They were almost left to rot, another casualty of the month-long war between Israel and Hizbollah, but yesterday Lebanon's oldest château began its annual wine harvest, eager to meet a surge of orders from abroad.
At Château Ksara, deep in the Hizbollah heartland of the Bekaa Valley, Bedouin women went to work among the vines, collecting the 149th harvest of Lebanon's oldest labels, which just weeks ago seemed certain to be lost.
The slopes of the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountain ranges are home to some of the Middle East's finest wines. But for 33 days, Israeli war jets pounded the area, seeking out guerrilla hideouts and destroying houses, bridges and factories.

That what was so important about the timing of the ceasefire - I know "Château Musar, a wine beloved by the late Auberon Waugh and regarded by many critics as one of the finest in the world, captured the public imagination after tales circulated of a harvest conducted through heavy bombardment during the 1975 to 1990 civil war" - but let's get serious. The production of truly great wine is far more important to civilisation than nearly any other act - it must be given all the protection it can be.

Is 6:40 am too early to open one of my dwindling stock of rich red "hint of medical iodine" 1982 Musars? (Tasting notes)