It’s hard to have goulish thoughts about wine. I was fully expecting to reach a ghostly dead end when I looked into this, but for those who care there are actually some Halloween wine choices.
To begin, there is the Vampire label. The company seems to be a marketer or distributor for some various wines produced in Transylvania, the home of Dracula himself, and now also sourced from producers in California. The provenance of these Romanian imports is not really so important considering that they are priced around $9.
Transylvanian winemaking goes back to ancient times and is mentioned by Plato. Legend has it that in the first century B.C., King Burbista destroyed the vineyards to discourage foreign invaders who were making an early attempt at wine tourism.
Bella Lugosi, who played Count Dracula as a sophisticated, sexy guy and made him the definitive vampire of all time in the 1931 film, “Dracula,” famously said, “I never drink…wine.” Would he have made an exception if the Vampire label had been imported then? I doubt it.
But we can all have a little spooky fun with wines as well as witches and goblins at the end of October.