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Tonight's bottle · Oxidative, nutty, bone-dry Sherry
Lustau Almacenista Amontillado
🇪🇸Jerez, Spain · Palomino
Amber, bone-dry, smelling of roasted almonds and old wood and sea air. Amontillado occupies the literary end of the sherry spectrum — complex, slightly melancholy, the kind of thing you sip slowly beside a lamp. Poe knew. So do you.
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
Dry, oxidative, and a little sinister. The wine for the dinner no one should have attended.
- Match № 02 · Antiquarian dust, gilded griefThe Goldfinchby Donna TarttWhy this works
Old library and polished wood — Amontillado has the same antique gravity as Hobie's workshop.
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