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Tonight's bottle · Dark, tannic, tobacco-edged red
Avignonesi Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
🇮🇹Tuscany, Italy · Sangiovese (Prugnolo Gentile)
Dark cherry and tobacco leaf, a wine that carries itself with old-world formality. More austere than Chianti, less showy than Barolo. Drinks like someone who's read everything and doesn't need to prove it.
What to read with it
Books for this glass
Matched to the wine's region, weight, and weather — not the other way around.
- Match № 01 · Candlelit Greek, slow-burning dreadThe Secret Historyby Donna TarttWhy this works
Dark cherry and tobacco leaf for the book's Italianate undertow. Tannic enough to match the moral hangover.
- Match № 02 · Antiquarian dust, gilded griefThe Goldfinchby Donna TarttWhy this works
Old-world formality and slow burn — the right bottle for a novel that takes the long way around to devastation.
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