Gently sweet, lightly sparkling and golden with peach and honeysuckle, it tastes like a childhood memory. A sip for the Hempstock farm, where the pond at the end of the lane is really an ocean.
Crisp and slightly uncanny. There's a white pepper note in Grüner Veltliner that other wines don't have, a quality that marks it as slightly other, which feels appropriate for a novel about the edge of the ordinary world.
Aged and amber and full of accumulated time. Tawny Port at twenty years has the same quality as the Hempstock farm: something that has absorbed history without being diminished by it.
Neil Gaiman conjures a gateway to childhood magic and ancient mystery at the edge of a small English village. Memory and wonder intertwine as the narrator is pulled back into a world of impossible creatures and profound loss. Dreamlike and deeply moving.
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