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Langham Wine Estate on Oct. 12 in Dorchester, UK.

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Hi, it’s your intrepid wine critic Elin McCoy again, with news on the wine world’s most important time of the year.

I don’t mean Halloween, although though Sonoma’s Jordan winery is noted for its annual invite-only bash with eerie music and lavish spooky décor, this year themed “Foul Play and Cabernet.” Tonight, I’ll indulge in my weakness—a big trick-or-treat package of peanut M&Ms—and maybe open Napa’s fruit-driven Ghost Block cabernet or a rich-textured Aperture Devil Proof old vine malbec from Sonoma.