{"id":4369,"date":"2020-10-14T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winebrotherhoods.org\/2020\/10\/14\/the-illustrious-ordre-of-the-knights-of-medusa-in-the-limelight\/"},"modified":"2023-03-19T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T11:33:46","slug":"the-illustrious-ordre-of-the-knights-of-medusa-in-the-limelight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winebrotherhoods.org\/en\/2020\/10\/14\/the-illustrious-ordre-of-the-knights-of-medusa-in-the-limelight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Illustrious Ordre of the Knights of Medusa in the limelight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jean-Pierre BOYER is the Grand Master of the Illustrious Order of the Knights of Medusa. His election as Vice-President of the F.I.C.B. for the South of France after our 2020 General Assembly is an opportunity to put the spotlight on this brotherhood which happily contributes to the reputation of the wines of the Provence region. <\/p>\n\n

The “Ordre Illustre des Chevaliers de M\u00e9duse” is a wine brotherhood created in Marseille in 1690, which flourished in Toulon and in the military ports of the Kingdom of France from the end of the 17th century, under the decisive influence of Jean-Louis Girardin de Vauvr\u00e9, Intendant of the Port of Toulon.<\/p>\n\n

The primary objective of the Order was to bring together officers of the Royal Navy and their friends to celebrate wines in general and those of Provence in particular. Hence the baptism of “Medusa”, given to the Illustrious Order, which is one of the three Gorgonians, the one whose gaze petrified, just as wine (locally called \u201cles huiles\u201d i.e. “the oils”) petrifies untimely drinkers. The Order also had a role in assisting members of the Order who were victims of the fighting or prisoners of the Barbarians. Finally, the Order was a center of literary creation in which the brothers and sisters of Medusa – because the Order was mixed from the beginning – composed songs and poems to animate their chapters. <\/p>\n\n

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Saint Vincent Day 2020<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Order disappeared during the revolution but was reborn in 1951 under the impetus of Baron Henri de Rasque de Laval to promote the great wines of Provence, such as the appellations d’Origine Contr\u00f4l\u00e9e Bandol, Bellet, Cassis, Coteaux Varois en Provence, C\u00f4tes de Provence, Palette, and to revive the three-hundred-year-old traditions of the Illustrious Order of the Knights of Medusa.<\/p>\n\n

Two large solemn extra-muros chapters are organized each year during which Knights are inducted or promoted in the Order, according to the ritual of the statutes of the 17th century. In addition, many extraordinary chapters are held each year, generally on the occasion of public events during which the wines of Provence are honored. <\/p>\n\n

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The Order celebrates the 2020 St Vincent day<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jean-Pierre Boyer was for a long time president of the Federation of Independent Winegrowers Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d’Azur-Corsica which groups together winegrowers who vinify in private cellars. He is notably a great specialist of the Mourv\u00e8dre grape variety widely used in the red and ros\u00e9 wines of the Bandol appellation, notably in his estate of Ch\u00e2teau Salettes. <\/p>\n\n

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Alan Bryden, president of the F.I.C.B., presents Jean-Pierre Boyer with the F.I.C.B. Vice-pr\u00e9sident stole, on the occasion of a visit to the Bandol Oenoth\u00e8que in September 2020<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

links :<\/p>\n\n

http:\/\/www.ordre-meduse.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n

https:\/\/www.vinsdeprovence.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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