What wine pairs with Swimming in the Dark?

The Pour

Crisp white🇫🇷 Bordeaux, France · Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon blend

Bright and gently honeyed with a cool, citrusy undertow, it recalls stolen summer days beside a lake in the Polish countryside. Warmth shadowed by fragility, like Ludwik and Janusz's summer.

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Tokaji Aszú 5 Puttonyos Királyudvar

Wine🇭🇺 Tokaj, Hungary · Furmint, Hárslevelű blend

An Eastern European sweet wine of amber sorrow and glow, fitting a love that must stay hidden.

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The Mood

Two young men fall in love in 1980s communist Poland, their summer idyll shadowed by state surveillance. Aching, lyrical and quietly defiant.

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