The Castle 2020 Red Blend

At Stoker Wines, we follow in the tradition of Bram Stoker, who in 1897 produced a mysterious blend of his own, to create his Castle Dracula. Bram used three distinct features: the exterior, the interior, and the location. He used a sketch of Bran Castle in Romania for his exterior description and Slains Castle in Cruden Bay Scotland for his internal octagonal room where Count Dracula welcomes Jonathan Harker and enjoys two glasses of wine. Bram placed his supernatural Count’s lair on Mount Izvorul, an extinct volcano near the Borgo Pass amid the flickering blue flames in the Calimani National Park of the Carpathian Mountains, in Northern Transylvania.

A wine born beneath a quiet sky, dark as a secret kept too long. The color carries the weight of twilight, rich and still. Plum and black cherry rise from the glass, threaded with smoke and the scent of damp stone. Merlot lends its velvet, Cabernet its structure, and Fetească Neagră its pulse. It lingers not like a shout but like the brush of a shadow passing by…