Blessed Be the Fruit of This New ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Wine...Until It Gets Canceled
Drowning our sorrows now that season two is over is not as easy as sneaking into Jezebel’s, because the new Handmaid’s Tale–themed wines that came out Monday have officially been pulled from production.
The line of three varietals from Lot18 was supposed to turn a feels-too-real dystopian show about a society in which women are enslaved to reproduce against their will into a consumer product pandering to fans of the Hulu series. But, under his eye, the company has decided to cancel the wines due to internet backlash for the flippant approach to the show’s extremely serious subject matter.
The three wines were described as a “rich and complex” Pinot Noir named Offred, a “warm, spicy” Cabernet Sauvignon named Ofglen, and a Bordeaux Blanc with “layers of approachable white grapefruit and lemongrass” named Serena Joy. Approachable seems like a stretch for a woman who helped build the regime that forces other women into oppression, no?
Guess we’ll just have to self-medicate ourselves against impending totalitarianism with non-TV-show-branded wine after all. (Actually make that a shot, please.)
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