Dracula's Blood, Cabernet Sauvignon, 2006
Yikes! This wine is indeed scary. Okay, it was Halloween, and these places put these funny labels on their wine. And we're suckers enough to fall for the label. Halloween + Dracula ... how you can you not buy such a bottle of red? But, then there's what's inside.
The nose, in a word: turpentine. If you can get past the singed nose hairs, there's some strawberry, currant -- oh, and the smell of Jolly Rancher. Not sure the flavor of that JR, but it definitely smelled like candy.
The best way to describe the taste was that it was like a thin Chianti. If I had tasted this blindly, I would have sworn it to be a Sangiovese, not a Cab! But that's label says. The flavor was also infected with a metallic taste, and sardines! It was just not good, and sour.
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That was the first day. So I sucked all the air out of the bottle and sealed it. Then, I drank it the next night, and it wasn't terrible. It still tasted like a (thin) Chianti -- that remained. However, that strong turpentine smell was gone, leaving it drinkable enough.
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4.5