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Tonight's Pairing

The Book of X

Sarah Rose Etter
Surrealbodilyunflinching
The Pour
1
Royal Tokaji Late Harvest
Wine🇭🇺 Tokaj, Hungary · Furmint blend

Made from grapes touched by noble rot, it turns decay into golden, honeyed sweetness lifted by bright acidity. It echoes Cassie's visions, where the grotesque and the beautiful bleed together in the strange country she grows up in.

2
E. Guigal Crozes-Hermitage
Full-bodied red🇫🇷 Northern Rhône, France · Syrah

Northern Rhône Syrah carries notes of blood, iron, and smoked meat beneath its dark fruit. It belongs with the family quarry where Cassie's father and brother cut slabs of meat out of the earth.

The Mood

Cassie is born with her stomach twisted into a knot, like her mother and grandmother before her, and grows up beside her family's meat quarry in a strange, dreamlike landscape. Surreal and aching, it follows her into adulthood as she wrestles with shame, desire, and loneliness in a body the world treats as wrong.

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