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SAMPLE CASE
The Cellar at Number 12
TONIGHT, YOU ARE
Priya Kessler
Sommelier
HOW TO PLAY THEM
corrects your pronunciation of 'Bordeaux' without meaning toswirls the glass before smelling anything, even a beernever sits with her back to the cellar door
Priya built Julian's cellar reputation bottle by bottle for six years, and has spent most of them resenting that only his name is on the door. Tonight she was meant to unveil the '61 Latour to a buyer flying in from Hong Kong — the sale that was supposed to finally make the cellar hers in every way but paperwork.
WHAT TO WEAR
a black blazera tasting spoon in the breast pocketwine-stained fingertips
YOUR STORY
Say this out loud if anyone asks where you were — safe to share, word for word.
“I was choosing the '08 Barolo when the lights went out.”
THE CASE
Julian Ferrand built his name on a cellar nobody could question — until tonight, when he told his sommelier he'd found the forgery, an hour before he meant to prove it to a buyer in front of the whole table. He never got the chance.
YOUR SECRET
The '61 Latour in that cellar isn't a '61. You relabeled it two years ago, after a shipment went missing and you couldn't face telling him. Tonight, an hour before the tasting, Julian worked it out — and he didn't want to ruin you quietly. He wanted the buyer to watch you explain it. You only meant to make him stop talking. The decanter was already in your hand.
DID YOU DO IT?
YES.
Priya is the killer. Keep this to yourself for the rest of the evening — lie beautifully. Nobody else at this table sees this page.
RIGHT NOW · COURSE 2 OF 3
The Second Pour
Julian pours the '61 Latour himself, narrating its provenance for the buyer — and pauses, just slightly, on the word 'unmistakable.'
Someone at this table already knows what he's about to say next.
EVIDENCE
A damp cork, in the wrong bin
Pulled from the bin behind the cellar's private reserve — not the vintage anyone was pouring tonight.
CONCERNS — PRIYA KESSLER, MARCUS VOSS
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