{"id":135000,"date":"2023-10-25T13:19:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finbestnews.com\/?p=135000"},"modified":"2023-10-25T13:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:19:17","slug":"raise-a-glass-from-the-dead-this-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finbestnews.com\/business\/raise-a-glass-from-the-dead-this-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise a glass from the dead this Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fans of the supernatural are being offered a glass of \u2018haunted wine\u2019 that has been exhumed from a coffin in time for Halloween.<\/p>\n

100 bottles of blood-red wine had been laid to rest in an oak coffin buried deep in a Victorian cemetery in London.<\/p>\n

A priest presided over the exhumation at Tower Hamlets Cemetery in case there was any paranormal activity and now wine brand 19 Crimes is offering horror fans a spooky opportunity to raise a glass from the afterlife.<\/p>\n

Five select – and scary – venues will be hosting the terrifying tasting experience.<\/p>\n

One is London\u2019s most haunted pub and another is named after the Scottish castle that inspired Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula. The novelist was a regular visitor to Slains Castle in Aberdeen before the tale of vampires was unleashed in 1897.<\/p>\n

19 Crimes asked TV exorcist Ian Lawman to sample the unique wine \u2013 but he was too scared to take even a sip.<\/p>\n

Despite years of experience exploring the supernatural, and paranormal skills that he put to use on TV show \u2018Help My House Is Haunted!\u2019\u00a0\u00a0He couldn\u2019t bring himself to touch it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no way I\u2019m trying that wine. There\u2019s something sinister about it as it\u2019s been resting amongst the dead six feet underground. Ghosts don\u2019t have boundaries – they shape shift, travel through walls and glass and make their presence known in the strangest of ways. I think 19 Crimes should have kept it buried.\u201d<\/p>\n

Complete with its \u2018coffin aged\u2019 label, the wine bottles glow in the dark. 19 Crimes has asked participating pubs to exercise caution when offering samples as it is not for the faint hearted.<\/p>\n

Thrill seekers braver than Lawman can also head to the Ten Bells pub in Spitalfields, one of the most haunted in London and where two of Jack the Ripper\u2019s victims were regulars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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If that\u2019s not spooky enough, it is also available at the Tolbooth Tavern, Edinburgh, where an angry ghost is said to wander around pushing glasses off tables and the laughter of long-dead children playing can sometimes be heard.<\/p>\n

Tower Hamlet Cemetery Park was closed to burials in 1966, but in another macabre twist the body of the pathologist who performed an autopsy on the Ripper\u2019s first victim lies there.<\/p>\n

Russell Kirkham, Head of Regional Marketing EMEA Treasury Premium Brands, said:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know our fans are always looking for something new and different, so this Halloween we created a wine to give them an experience like no other.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fair to say this is our most unusual wine yet, less full bodied and more disembodied. It\u2019s only made in very limited quantities and distributed in pubs across the UK just in time for Halloween.\u201d<\/p>\n