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Vietti Barolo Castiglione
Medium-bodied red🇮🇹 Piedmont, Italy · Nebbiolo
Tannic and austere on opening, then a slow bloom of rose and iron. Mirrors Peter's controlled grief and its gradual unraveling.
The Pour
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Marcel Lapierre Morgon
Light red🇫🇷 Beaujolais, France · Gamay
Deceptively simple on the surface, all the real feeling happening underneath — Ivan's quiet, chess-trained interiority.
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Egon Müller Scharzhofberger Kabinett
Crisp white🇩🇪 Mosel, Germany · Riesling
Crystalline and almost painful in its precision. Grief held very carefully, the way this family holds everything.
The Mood
Two brothers in Dublin circling their father's death and their own tangled loves, one of them playing competitive chess as a way of not feeling anything directly. Cerebral, wintry, aching underneath its restraint. Best read in short, intense sittings, like a match you can't look away from.
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