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Les Hérétiques VdP de l'Hérault, Iché - 2021

Name: Les Hérétiques VdP de l'Hérault, Iché
Brand: Ch. D'Oupia
SKU: 32863
Price: 11.96 USD
Availability: InStock

Item # 32863 750mL

This 100% Carignan from Minervois in the south of France will knock your socks off. It is medium-bodied with a strong tannic structure and aromas of raspberries and blueberries. A definite food wine.

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$143.52 $129.17/ Case of 12

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Color

Red

Vintage

2021

Country

France

Region

Languedoc-Roussillon

Sub-Region

Hérault

Producer

Ch. D'Oupia

Grape Variety

Carignan

Syrah

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Staff Pick Notes

This delicious, budget-friendly bistro wine is one of my go-tos for under $15. It's medium-bodied with some tannins, boasting lush blueberry and blackberry aromas with a hint of earth and spice--clean, pure, and easy drinking yet with a bit more character and complexity than other wines at this price point. Now for some medieval history. This wine is named Les Hérétiques in memory of Cathars persecuted during the Albigensian Crusade in the early 13th c. Catharism was a gnostic, dualist heretical sect which originated and spread throughout Languedoc in Southern France, the region where this wine is produced. Being an ascetic, anti-materialist movement I doubt many Cathars would have indulged in this wine, but you can pour a little out in their honor.

- SJF

Glossary

Carignan

Grown all over Europe and the Americas, Carignan (a.k.a. Carignane, Carignano, and Cariñena) is seldom seen as a 100% varietal wine. Many appellations of Languedoc-Roussillon must include a certain percentage of Carignan, but it is rarely the dominant grape in these blends. For years, this naturally high-yielding grape suffered from overproduction, but New World winemakers have lately taken up the Carignan cause and produced some distinctive and delicious examples. Now that it is subject to...

Syrah

We'd like to clear this up once and for all: the Shiraz grape is genetically identical to Syrah. Australian winemakers put "Shiraz" on the map (and, many would argue, vice versa), and the term is now used throughout much of the New World. Let it never be said, however, that Shiraz and Syrah are the same thing: the region in which the grape is grown determines much about the flavor of the wine it will produce. Typically, New World Shiraz yields bigger, fruitier wines than the the peppery Syrahs...