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Our second Bookshop Wine of the Month also has a very special Irish connection.
THE WINE
Chateau Puynard “The Steps” is a Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon blend from Côtes de Blaye in Bordeaux, grown on clay-limestone soil and aged fifteen months in French oak. The estate is owned by Andrew Eakin and Naomi Murtagh, who grew up a field apart from each other in Kingscourt, Co Cavan, and have been a couple since they were eighteen. The pair built a wine retail business in London, Bottle Apostle, before taking on the eighteenth-century château in Blaye in 2016. It's a wine that needs a little time and air before it shows you what it is. Give it a few minutes in the glass and the black fruit, vanilla and toasted spice come through properly, backed by fine tannins and a long finish.
THE BOOK
Liz Nugent's Unraveling Oliver opens with a single act of violence, then spends the rest of the novel quietly taking Oliver Ryan apart. Chapter by chapter, told through the people who knew him at different points in his life, the calm and successful man from the opening page turns out to be something else entirely. He looks finished and composed at the start. He isn't.
WHY WE'VE PAIRED THEM
Both of these open slowly. Nugent builds Oliver up through other people's memories rather than handing him to you complete, and the wine works the same way, tight and closed at first pour, then opening out with a bit of patience. There's also a French vineyard at the centre of the novel, the setting for the summer that ends up explaining everything.
There's something fitting about pairing an Irish author's novel with a Bordeaux estate built by a couple from Co Cavan. Old vines. Irish roots. French sunshine. A beautiful bottle and a proper story.
Pick up a bottle. Pick up a book. Reclaim an evening.
Over 18s only. Please enjoy responsibly.
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