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Tonight's Pairing

The Mirror and the Light

Hilary Mantel
Candlelitcold-eyedinevitable
The Pour
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Château Meyney Saint-Estèphe
Full-bodied red🇫🇷 Saint-Estèphe, Bordeaux, France · Cabernet Sauvignon-Merlot blend

Disciplined, firm and quietly formidable, with dark fruit and a cedar edge. Its grip grows firmer with every sip, much as Henry's court slowly tightens around Cromwell.

The Mood

The final Cromwell volume is all velvet and menace, a court where power is rising and the axe is already sharpened. It reads like a long dusk over Tudor England.

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