Vampire Vineyards, Cabernet Sauvignon, 2005
It was Halloween, so we had to try it. We bought some last year (also for Halloween then), but we never got around to trying it (the scary thing still lives in my cellar).
One whiff, and it's like you you were thrown into the bottle of a fishing boat. Seriously fishy. Sardines, sea funk, old clam shells, sea smegma, mussels. And really strong too. Yes, seriously weird. If you can get past that stench, the taste is raisin and prune and maybe some hints of black cherry. There's also the taste of stems (a sort of slightly bitterness). The finish is also prune. It's dry, but that prune has a slight sweetness to it.
Sorry to say, but this was not pleasant. While the taste and such was fine, that smell was just too much to get past. Most poured the wine back into the bottle, and we moved on.
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1.5