Chateau d'Oupia Pays d'Herault Les Heretiques

The Carignan vines average 40 years in age, with some of them being up over 100 years old. The fruit is sustainably farmed and harvested partly by hand and partly by machine. Half of the Carignan is vinified traditionally--destemmed and fermented in used barrel and macerated with skins for 30 days--and half as whole clusters with carbonic maceration. Those wines are blended with the Syrah and aged in a combination of steel tank and neutral oak vats.

It is aromatic, dark, ruby-colored, wonderfully clean and pure, with an exuberant personality, and pronounced rich, peppery, red and black fruit.

Appellation: Pays d'Hérault
Region: Languedoc-Roussillon
Country: France
Feature: Sustainable
Raw Materials: Syrah, Grenache, Carignan, Cinsault