Chateau d'Oupia, Pays d'Herault Les Heretiques, 2024 Matthiasson Fall 2024 or veggie-driven dinners

or veggie-driven dinners

Serve it well chilled as a go-to aperitif or alongside lighter fare

and a saline finish that begs for seafood

This Mercurey comes from a 27-hectare holding of old vines planted between 1962 and 1981 on clay-limestone soils

and 18 months of elevage on lees

Chateau d'Oupia, Pays d'Herault Les Heretiques, 2024 Matthiasson Fall 2024 or veggie-driven dinnersChteau d'Oupia's Les Hrtiques is the kind of bottle that makes you rethink what you expect from a Languedoc wine under twenty dollars. Made from old Carignan and Syrah vines in the rugged garrigue covered hills of the Hrault, it delivers structure and personality that most wines at twice the price never find. The name is a nod to the Cathar heretics who once inhabited this region stubborn, independent, and unwilling to play by Rome's rules. The wine