2006 Les Hrtiques, Vin de Pays de l'Hrault Languedoc-Roussillon, alc 12.5%, $6.99....still showing very well with an explosion of ripe berries and violets that cascade like velvet across my tongue...it dances there then slowly dissipates with a gentle sweetness...tannins are mostly receded but the wine is still very bright and alive....
For ~$7????...just ridiculous...heretical in fact...
From the Polaner site...
"This special cuvee made by Andre Ich is a blend of Carignan from 70-year-old vines and Syrah"
"Les Hrtiques commemorates the massacre of Minereve in 1208. Inhabited by members of the Cathari religious order, a pacifist Christian, non-conformist group that prospered during the Middle Ages, the destruction in Minereve was only one of the many Crusades led by the Roman Catholic Church, who, calling the Cathari heretics, persecuted them in town after town. The Cathars story, one of the unquenchable spirit of man, juxtaposed with the inhumanity of man, imparts new significance on Languedocs ruined towers and castles, some sitting high and seemingly inaccessible, on mountaintops"
For ~$7????...just ridiculous...heretical in fact...
From the Polaner site...
"This special cuvee made by Andre Ich is a blend of Carignan from 70-year-old vines and Syrah"
"Les Hrtiques commemorates the massacre of Minereve in 1208. Inhabited by members of the Cathari religious order, a pacifist Christian, non-conformist group that prospered during the Middle Ages, the destruction in Minereve was only one of the many Crusades led by the Roman Catholic Church, who, calling the Cathari heretics, persecuted them in town after town. The Cathars story, one of the unquenchable spirit of man, juxtaposed with the inhumanity of man, imparts new significance on Languedocs ruined towers and castles, some sitting high and seemingly inaccessible, on mountaintops"