As anyone who has read my blog for a while may recall, I've developed a thing for finding wines with witchy titles. Remember Les Sorcieres and Aqua Pumpkin? After devouring the books and seeing The Golden Compass last night, my head is full of thoughts of His Dark Materials and heresy=free thought, so I was very amused when I saw this bottle of wine on the shelf of my little neighborhood market: Les Heretiques.

As described by The Wine Buyer:

This special cuvee made by Andre Iche is a blend of Carignan from 70-year-old vines and Syrah. Les Heretiques 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 Languedoc’s ruined towers and castles, some sitting high and seemingly inaccessible, on mountaintops.

I also found a mention of this wine at Compleat Winegeek (how appropriate this old fashioned spelling is!) that says Les Heretiques has a "cool label designed by Andrew Scott, the J.D. Salinger of the Internet." Never heard of him, but okay.

We're having a snow storm in Boston at the moment and I'm toasty and warm in front of my fire. A friend is coming over for some wine and conversation, so I'll be able to give a report on how free our thinking gets after we finish drinking this bottle!

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 7:14 PM