The Castle 2023 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.

Bright, dark, and alive, this is youth wrapped in silk. Notes of plum, cracked pepper, and forest floor drift together like smoke through the trees. The Merlot smooths, the Cabernet steadies, and the Fetească Neagră gives it a wild edge. It leaves a trace behind — ink on skin, a story not yet finished…