Best red wine for a date? West Island show may help you decide

I get asked lots of questions about wine. The best one recently was on Valentine’s Day. I was working the floor as a sommelier and while his date left the table, a patron asked me for a wine that “oozed sensuality.”
Go figure: he talks just like me. He wanted red, so we went through the main grapes.
It’s definitely not cabernet sauvignon. It’s too rigid, too tannic and lacks intrigue. They all kind of smell the same, and in the game of “wooing,” what kin