Duplin Carolina Red Muscadine

This year I will not be going to the Outer Banks. I love the Outer Banks, but because Joy and I are going to buy a house we can't really afford to go anywhere. It makes me sad. I love the miles and miles of unspoiled beach between Nags Head and Hatteras, and if not for my pasty complexion (which sunburns too easily) and fear of hurricanes, I'd probably live there. The other day, as I wandered through Safeway during my lunch break, I stumbled across this bottle of wine that said "Hatteras Red" from Duplin vineyards and I had to sample it. Hatteras Red, I figured, is the next best thing to being there.

Other than, you know, being somewhere else. . .

I mean if I had the choice between traveling and a bottle of wine, I'd travel. So then the bottle of wine is the next best thing to being there, or somewhere else nice. It helps ease the boredom of staying home, anyway.

Duplin vineyards is quite the winery. They are the largest winery in North Carolina (for what that's worth) and have won quite a few awards. They also have an unbelievably large assortment of products. The Hatteras Red, made from the muscadine grape, is terrific. It's sweet, but not too much so, and quite delicious, with a fuzzy, peach taste to it. I could drink it all night, except that it has kind of a girl-drink quality to it and I'm much too butch. But for those less masculine than I, I recommend it highly.

Pick it up when you next visit the Brew Thru.

9 out of 10.

Safeway, $8.48