Thursday, December 2, 2010

Why has our wine industry waited so long to give its best?

I am in love, positively and genuinely in love. We finally have a wine whose name does not begin with "chateau", whose typo is not that of Veuve Cliquot, whose logo is fresh, crisp and plain innovative while still being recognisable, and easy to read. Welcome Ixsir!
I have read in Monocle that Ixsir means "to distill" - not to my knowledge to be honest, I know that when applied to Arak it means "adding water to it" - but also the word remins me of "elixir" that beautiful word with Medieval conotations of potions and dark love spells....
It is good to know that our wine industry has waited so long to give its best.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

too bad the wine is shit.

Anonymous said...

You're right, that's why people like you deserve to stay on vodka and all of this rubbish...
For once we have a very good wine who is from the beginning proving alot!

Plus fix the title, it's "Why has ouR wine..."

Anonymous said...

dear Tarek, i appreciate and agree with your appreciation to the high quality of the message and uniqueness of Ixsir. Not only this wine as a message is great but also he deliver in quality, taste and experience.
that is why ( as some articles shared), the toughest critic in Bordeaux gave Ixsir the highest grade ever given to a lebanese wine. Enjoy!

Anonymous said...

White is good, red is so so, Rose is shit indeed :) but the spirit is there and we are for Ixsir. New comers should always be encouraged on the market to develop a stable and free economy instead of "whining" about it the whole time. Competition and market rules will do the rest. Good luck guys. Cheers!

Anonymous said...

Rose is actually the best of Lebanon - in my opinion... Wine is a matter of personal taste and I really like the Ixsir wines.
By the way 'ixir' in Arabic with AL at the beginning gives you AL IXIR or ELIXIR. That's the origin of the elixir word.

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Alex said...

Wow the saatchi boys really have nothing better to do but congratulate themselves in the comments section.

The identity is very nice, the ad is bad and so is the wine.