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Tonight's bottle · Wild, oxidative, otherworldly red
Château Musar Rouge
🇱🇧Bekaa Valley, Lebanon · Cabernet Sauvignon / Cinsault / Carignan
Something between Bordeaux and a fever dream — dried fruit, leather, cedar, a note of something almost medicinal. Made during wartime for decades, drunk now with a kind of reverence. Not like anything else. Pairs with books that couldn't have been written anywhere else either.
What to read with it
Books for this glass
Matched to the wine's region, weight, and weather — not the other way around.
- Bindie · Vol.BelovedToni MorrisonMatch № 01 · River-heavy, haunted, holyBelovedby Toni MorrisonWhy this works
Otherworldly and grave, made under impossible circumstances and somehow more alive for it. Both demand reverence.
- Bindie · Vol.The Secret HistoryDonna TarttMatch № 02 · Candlelit Greek, slow-burning dreadThe Secret Historyby Donna TarttWhy this works
Exotic, a little ancient, slightly dangerous. The wine for a novel that keeps something back.
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