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Egly-Ouriet Champagne
Sparkling🇫🇷 Champagne, France · Pinot Noir / Chardonnay
Every launch deserves a toast, and Sam and Sadie's games are, in the end, worlds built out of pure devotion. Serious enough for the grief underneath the celebration.
The Pour
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Failla Pinot Noir
Light red🇺🇸 Sonoma Coast, CA · Pinot Noir
Cool-climate and quietly aching, a wine for the long stretch of years the novel covers without ever losing its thread of feeling.
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Arnot-Roberts Trousseau
Light red🇺🇸 North Coast, CA · Trousseau
Light, a little unruly, and full of unexpected tenderness — the earliest Cambridge dorm-room chapters, before either of them knew what they were building.
The Mood
Two friends build video games together across thirty years, from a hospital elevator in Cambridge to a studio in Venice Beach, love that never becomes romance and never stops being love. Grief arrives quietly and rearranges everything, the way a good game does — level by level, save file by save file. Read it near a screen you've loved too much.
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