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Ravenswood Besieged – Dark and Mysterious

Ravenswood Besieged – Dark and Mysterious

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It’s only September and I’m already seeing Christmas junk on display in stores.  Have they forgotten about Halloween?  It’s one of my favorite holidays, although I haven’t taken the time to celebrate it much in the past few years.  Plus a lot folks say that I’m too old for Halloween.

I think Halloween should be celebrated by all ages.  And a number of wine producers appear to agree with me and have been creating special wines to celebrate Halloween.  Really, what’s a better beverage to have on Halloween than some blood red wine?

Besieged from Ravenswood is one such special release for Halloween.  What’s funny is that I probably would have included Ravenswood on my Halloween wine list even without a special release.

This wine is a blend of petite sirah, carignane, zinfandel, syrah, barbera, alicante bouschet and mourvèdre.  I like that they chose some wines with exotic, mysterious sounding names.

This wine is a little more purple than “blood red” as I had hoped, but it’s still a beautiful color.  The aromas are dark and mysterious, offering intense cherry, blackberry, plum, leather and exotic spices.  It’s a bold wine on the palate, bringing rich wild cherry, blackberry, plum, coffee and a brooding, earthy bitterness to offer a counterpoint to the fruit.  That bitterness may be disturbing to some.  It finishes with lingering spice flavors that heighten your senses.  This is not a polite wine.  It’s dark, bold and challenging.  Yet it’s enticing.  It seems appropriate for Halloween.

Do you dare try it?

Wine: Ravenswood Besieged
Variety: Petite sirah, carignane, zinfandel, syrah, barbera, alicante bouschet and mourvèdre
Vintage: 2013
Alcohol: 14.5%
Rating: 86
Price: $16.00
Disclosure: This wine was received as a sample.

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SUMMARY

The aromas are dark and mysterious, offering intense cherry, blackberry, plum, leather and exotic spices. It's a bold wine on the palate, bringing rich wild cherry, blackberry, plum, coffee and a brooding, earthy bitterness to offer a counterpoint to the fruit. That bitterness may be disturbing to some. It finishes with lingering spice flavors that heighten your senses. This is not a polite wine. It's dark, bold and challenging. Yet it's enticing. It seems appropriate for Halloween.

4.3

Tim Lemke Tim is the founder and chief reviewer at Cheap Wine Ratings since 2007.

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