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Tonight's Pairing

Waiting for the Barbarians

J. M. Coetzee
Starkmoraltightening dread
The Pour
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Kanonkop Pinotage
Wine🇿🇦 Stellenbosch, South Africa · Pinotage

Coetzee's South African moral landscape finds its echo in this earthy, smoky red. It is rugged and unflinching, with a bitter-sweet finish.

The Mood

A frontier magistrate's conscience unravels as an empire manufactures an enemy. Spare and allegorical, it holds a steady chill.

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