Vampires love Vino

This Hallow’s Eve, we recommend saving the heavy liquor consumption for Saturday night’s official Halloween bashes and cozying up to a bottle of vino. It’s a nice way to unwind from a tough week, and your body will be thanking you tomorrow for those all-night-long festivities.

Tonight from 6 to 9pm at MHW, we’re tasting: Kozlovic Othello (a Croatian blend of Teran, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot), Pullus Sauvignon Blanc from Slovenia and Pullus Zweigelt, a zesty red grape indigenous to Austria and grown in Slovenia.

If you’re dawning your costumes tonight, we hope you’ll still stop by our tasting when you pick up the pre-party goods.

Kozlovic Othello
Gianfranco Kozlovic’s modern winery in northern Istria, Croatia is known for quality. He grows the red Teran, a subvariety of Refosco that produces a “wild,” high-acidity wine, which he blends with Merlot and Cabernet in Kozlovic Othello for the perfect inky purple color, and flavors of intense plums, ripe black cherries with soft oak and a slight herb note.

Pullus Sauvignon Blanc
Pullus is the oldest winery in Slovenia - its cellars dating to 1239 lie labyrinthine beneath the streets of the city of Ptuj. A dry, delightfully rounded sauvignon blanc with grapefruit, guava and pineapple on the nose and hints of paprika on the palate, it’s a nice refresher with asparagus dishes and seafood.

Pullus Zweigelt
The most notable grape in Austria and Slovenia these days is arguably zweigelt (pronounced TSVYE-gelt). A relatively new grape—it was developed in 1922 when Austrian scientist, Fritz Zweigelt, crossed blaufränkisch with St. Laurent. It’s growing in popularity in the United States, even when Americans prefer grapes more easy to pronounce like Chardonnay. The berry-full red, tangy and dry, is delicious and unusual, making us want to consume it more and more.

Happy Halloween!