White · Bekaa Valley · Lebanon
Château Ksara Merwah
Scored from 334 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Lebanon (24 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Sincere apologies Winey friends. My tasting notes have been off as of recent times. But I am in Lebanon on a connoisseurian adventure and shall now share my excavations. My first and only Merwah. She is a zesty grape from the Roman gods, a fruit of Jupiter's loin. The complexity of the juice mirroring the colossal temple within the vicinity she grew. Nourished by the nutrient rich waters of the Beqaa valley, she flourished. Merwah the mighty indigenous ancient white grape. citrus minerals lemon”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A pale-yellow wine with greenish reflections. On the nose, it offers intense citrus and white flowers with mineral notes. The palate is full of tropical fruit with undertones of guava, \lime and summer melon, all balanced with fresh acidity. It has a textured middle palate with a sustained finish.
From Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, Château Ksara Merwah is a white.
23 other whites from Lebanon form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 334 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 342 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Château Ksara Merwah lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against White · Lebanon (24 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 334.
