8 pairings
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958
Mount Etna, Sicily
Volcanic, aristocratic, and quietly aware that everything is changing.
Daphne du Maurier, 1938
Northern Rhône, France
Dark, peppery and a little haunted — like Manderley after midnight.
Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989
Bordeaux, France
Claret for an English country house, poured with perfect restraint.
Haruki Murakami, 1987
Yamanashi, Japan
Delicate, melancholy and unmistakably Japanese.
Herman Melville, 1851
Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain
Bone-dry and salt-sprayed, for a very long voyage.
Umberto Eco, 1980
Burgundy, France
The monks perfected this wine. Drink it while one solves a murder.
Leo Tolstoy, 1878
Kakheti, Georgia
Deep, dark and passionate — a red as grand as a Russian novel.
Emily Brontë, 1847
Douro Valley, Portugal
Something warming by the fire while the wind howls across the moors.