This photo shows a bottle of red wine on a deck in front of a plant, outside in a backyard/neighborhood. The red wine label reads: Jaws: Amity Island Red Blend.

Bring on the Sharks: Amity Island “Jaws” Red Wine Blend

This photo shows a bottle of red wine on a deck in front of a plant, outside in a backyard/neighborhood. The red wine label reads: Jaws: Amity Island Red Blend.

A calamity in Amity?!! Hold my wine cozy. I’m going in.

Here’s what the frenzy’s all about: something full-bodied, with hints of berries—and swimmingly fintastic—is hitting liquor stores everywhere. It’s the Amity Island Red Blend “Jaws” wine by the Fior di Sole wine company in California—and if wine glasses were boats, I’d want one as big as a cruise ship.

Let’s start with the label. It’s freakin’ awesome. The swimmer from the opening scene of the Jaws movie slices her way through the waves, churning up frothy bubbles, and right below, where we can all see, the gaping mouth of the shark awaits in the murky blue. It makes you want to shout, “Get out of the wine! Get out! There’s a shark!”

But then, you just play that dun, dun, dun, dun, dun beat in your head as you pull out the cork, tilt the bottle, and let all that red liquid pour down your glass while you sing, “Show me the way to go home.”

Points for the shark.

This wine is intense, with hints of spice, just how I like my Carcharodon carcharias. Let’s put it this way: if a great white were to attack my boat, I’d save this wine first.

And happy anniversary to the Jaws movie, by the way. Fifty years—such a great reason to get chummy with a good wine.

Serve this one with:

  • Marathon viewings of Jaws—of course!
  • Chunks of rare, red meat, fresh from the grill
  • A boatload of sushi
  • Life preservers
  • A salty shark hunter, the police chief of Amity Island, and an oceanographer
  • A truckload of “beach closed” signs, so you can sip your wine in peace
  • A “No Lifeguard on Duty” T-shirt

Your Turn: What’s your favorite movie and/or snack?

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23 thoughts on “Bring on the Sharks: Amity Island “Jaws” Red Wine Blend”

    1. I can’t believe it, either! I went to see it when I turned six years old, but I was definitely not six years old in 1975–maybe movies just had longer releases in theaters back then? Or it took longer for the movie to get to Ohio?

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  5. I missed out on the wine, but saw the play. ‘The Shark is Broken’ stars Ian Shaw, son of one of the stars, a one act play with three men in a boat on the stage acting out the making of the film. It was brilliant!

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  6. I was listening to the radio last week and the host was interviewing Valerie Taylor who (along with her now dead husband (Ron)) assisted with the filming. Some of the scenes were filmed locally in waters off South Australia. One of the tourist attractions here is swimming in a cage in waters where great white sharks inhabit.

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    1. Yes–absolutely fascinated with Valerie Taylor! I definitely won’t be getting in a shark cage, though. I’d feel like a Twinkie in a vending machine–stuck in the coils–while the shark shakes the cage back and forth to get the food loose.

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      1. Cheers! Try not to imagine you’re drinking blood–or do, if that’s a thing you’re into. You’re near Forks, WA, aren’t you? I have my suspicions. 😉

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