Cheerwine is impossible to describe to anyone who hasn't had it. As a brand, I think its almost as old as Coke. In those long ago days, sodas were named after the booze it resembled: root beer, ginger ale, and the rich burgundy color was called Cheerwine!
Dr. Pepper Cherry is a stepchild from Cheerwine. It doesn't have the cola flavor, even in the background. I keep thinking it must be a crossing of different cherry flavors; sweet, pie, black, maybe even some maraschino.
BTW: Rawr Vapor has a flavor called "Oh Yeah" that is the exact flavor of cherry Koolaid I remember when I was a kid! Ever have a vape flavor so close to the real thing that you have to keep hitting it to prove you weren't hallucinating?