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Named after the rare & endangered Iris Sofarana, a native to Mount Lebanon. IRIS DOMAIN pays tribute to this land that offers such magnificent wines, by donating a portion of the sale of each bottle of IRIS DOMAIN to reestablish their stunning mascot in its natural habitat on Mount Lebanon.
Winey and Winemaking
IRIS DOMAIN is a wine of passion: an all-estate organic producer of limited quantity, micro-cuvée wines. Carefully tended at an elevation between 1,000 and 1,200 meters, our vineyard covers just under 5 hectares of clay loam and limestone terraces near the villages of Btalloun & Bhamdoun.
With a single minded focus on quality, IRIS DOMAIN endeavours to push the sustainability envelope to ensure we tread as lightly on the land as possible while producing great fruit and wine. As such, we do not use any chemical fertilisers or pesticides. We apply only cattle and green manure to nourish the vines & maintain healthy soil microflora. And, when absolutely necessary we use Bordeaux Mixture to control the inevitable mildew. In the cellar we employ precision, state of the art equipment to gently sort and handle the grapes to safeguard the purity of fruit. The wine is then blended and aged primarily in French oak barriques for about 12 months before resting in bottle for a further year prior to release for your enjoyment as well as ours.
