Crunchy red fruit, a pencil-shaving edge, and bright acidity make this a classic Parisian bistro red. It fits the Left Bank cafés and lecture halls where Bayard and Herzog question philosophers about Barthes's death.
The Pour
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Bernard Baudry Chinon Les Granges
Medium-bodied red🇫🇷 Loire Valley, France · Cabernet Franc
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Grüner Veltliner Federspiel Domäne Wachau
Crisp white🇦🇹 Austria · Grüner Veltliner
Lean and precise, this Grüner has white-pepper spice and a mineral snap. It matches the Logos Club, the secret debating society where rhetorical duels are fought for painfully real stakes.
The Mood
A postmodern mystery that opens with the death of Roland Barthes in 1980 Paris, as Inspector Jacques Bayard and young semiotician Simon Herzog chase a missing document through the world of French theory. Mischievous and erudite, it turns Foucault, Derrida, and Eco into suspects and treats language as a weapon.
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