The nose is as spicy as some of the letters we’re bound to get from WoW’s Irish readership, with fruit as sweet as our intentions (we love the Irish… honest). It’s woody enough to stake a vampire, but at least there’s pie for afterwards. What I mean is that it smells (in addition to spice and wood) like a blackberry pie that’s been rolled around in the mud.

If something can be totally out of control and over the top, but in a good way, the palate of this wine has achieved it.

The flavors are HUGE, sweet blackberry and blueberry, with enough spicy cedar to balance all the ultra-ripe fruit (a tall order, indeed).

The finish… hasn’t yet. The aftertaste is still going, and it’s been days since I emptied the bottle. I guess I should go brush my teeth. Or maybe not: I’m thinking of being Shane MacGowan of The Pogues for Halloween.

Cheers,
TSW

As you decorate for Halloween (surely you started months ago), you’ll want this fantastic wine on hand. If you happen to run low on stage blood, just substitute with this black-as-all-Hallows Eve shiraz!

And if your costume requires bad teeth, save a glass of it for consumption. Such a complete teeth-stainer it is, that it’s the perfect addition to any zombie, mummy, or Dubliner get-up.

On second thought, buy two bottles. If you taste this wine, you’ll never save enough of it for that decapitation scene you’re planning to make on your front step. (Trick-or-treating youngsters love that sort of thing!)