A tale of family and tradition

Chateau Musar celebrated its 85th anniversary in October 2015 in style with a grand party. Despite the festivities, however, the winery has suffered a solemn year, with the death of winemaker and co-owner Serge Hochar, one of the sons of Chateau Musar’s founder Gaston Hochar, on the last day of 2014. Ronald Hochar, Serge’s brother and co-owner of Chateau Musar who is in charge of the winery’s marketing, reveals the main reasons he decided to throw a lavish celebration at the Palais du Msar, their wine estate in Ghazir, Mount Lebanon. First, he wanted to celebrate the fact that the winery has been in the same family for 85 years with no dispute or division. “They say brothers usually meet for Christmas, Easter and court, so I wanted to celebrate a company staying in the same family and so agreeably for so long with the third generation still working in