Harvester Moon
TASTING NOTES: “Understated in new oak, alcohol and tannins, this 100% Dry Creek Cabernet Sauvignon will surprise your senses with traditional flavors and aromas. In classic Harvest Moon Cabernet style, this floral, earthy cab has beautiful green olive, sage, tart cocoa and tobacco profiles. We love making this wine as much as we love drinking it…” (AbV 12.8%)
VARIETALS: Cabernet Sauvignon.
BARRELS: New oak.
PAIRS WITH: N/A
THAT REMINDS ME OF: Harvester, a point-and-click adventure game from 1996 made with full-motion video (filmed actors).
Famed for its violent and disturbing content, Harvester puts Steve Mason in a small town called Harvest, Texas in 1953. He remembers nothing from before waking up that morning, and he seems to have a mother and brother who are unfamiliar to him. His mom compulsively and repeatedly bakes cookies and his brother constantly watches a single show on TV. The other residents of Harvest are equally strange and hostile, and nobody is willing to help Steve with his amnesia problem. They do direct him, however, to “The Lodge” of the Order of the Harvest Moon, the group that apparently runs Harvest.
At the Lodge, Steve receives directions from the Sergeant at Arms, tasks that are intended to initiate him into the Order. They start off innocuous, but they all seem to end with someone dying, directly and indirectly because of Steve’s actions. By the end, it is revealed to be a simulation designed to see if a regular person can be made into a serial killer. Everybody else, except him and a girl named Stephanie, are fakes meant to break down his inhibitions and desensitize him to violence. If he wants to leave the simulation, he has to kill Stephanie. Otherwise, he can choose to stay with her.
Real messed-up game.
