BUSINESS BUDDIES: Book & Wine Pairings With Off The Beaten Path

BUSINESS BUDDIES
Book & Wine Pairings With Bob Lingle At Off The Beaten Path

We spent the day Saturday judging books by their covers and wines by their labels!

With the holidays now behind us and the winter months in full effect, this past weekend felt like the perfect time to splurge on a new book & a bottle of wine to go with it!

Did you miss our posts on social media!? Never fear! When Off The Beaten Path opens again this week, you can still grab these great books... and just up Chautauqua Ave we'll have plenty of wine waiting for you!

MESSIAH & VERMILLION

THE WINE
Vermillion
Red Blend from California
750ml • $38.99
Vermillion is a terroir-driven, delicious, hand-crafted wine to be enjoyed any night of the week. The quality of wine is based on the quality of all its inputs.

Deeply perfumed with red raspberry, wild blackberry, black licorice, orange oil, violets, coriander and slate on the nose. The palate is silky and plush with red and black fruits, cardamom & black peppercorn.

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THE BOOK
Messiah
By Boris Starling
A page-turning thriller following an investigator with a celebrated ability to get under the skin and into the minds of the deranged killers he hunts.

Set in London during an extreme heatwave, the airless days and strange steamy nights aren’t the worst thing happening as a killer is stalking the streets. Wealthy men are being murdered to some mysterious pattern, with no clues left behind, only corpses with silver spoons in place of their tongues.

But as the city swelters and the body count rises, our investigator’s own tortured past begins to turn against him.Sometimes, as they say, it takes a killer to catch a killer. The novel became the basis for the popular BBC TV series Messiah, starring Ken Stott.

A HAUNTED ATLAS OF WESTERN NEW YORK & GHOST PINES

THE WINE
Ghost Pines
2016 Cabernet Sauvignon
Lake County, Sonoma & Napa, California
750ml • $21.99
Soft and structured with aromas of vanilla, brown spice and toasted oak that leads to a palate of dark fruit, blackberry and dark cherry.
—Wilfred Wong, 90 points

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THE BOOK
A Haunted Atlas Of Western New York
By Amanda R. Woomer
Move away from the ghost stories around the campfire and seek out the strange and unusual for yourself with the Haunted Atlas of Western New York. Join local writer, historian, paranormal researcher, and owner of Spook-Eats as she takes you to haunted cemeteries, museums, roads, schools, theatres, and restaurants (with a few cryptids thrown in just for fun). Explore over 130 haunted locations throughout the region, complete with walking and driving tours, a spooky bucket list, and coordinates to create the perfect haunted journey.

WIDOW'S POINT & RABBLE CHARDONNAY

THE WINE
Rabble Chardonnay
Paso Robles, California
750ml • $24.99
This wine shows excellent aromas and flavors of ripe peach skin and brisk minerality.
—Wilfred Wong, 90 points

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THE BOOK
Widow's Point
By Billy Chizmar and Richard Chizmar
In this collaboration, father and son writing team, Richard and Billy Chizmar, combine forces to tell the story of a shuttered lighthouse in a town where the residents have written the building off as haunted — the site or dozens of additional deaths, murders, suicides, unexplained accidents and disappearances, the slaughter of an entire family, and the inexplicable death of a Hollywood starlet who was filming a movie on the grounds.

It’s a story that will make you think twice about what is waiting for you in the dark. This novella is a much-expanded version of the short story of the same title.

THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY & DIABLO DARK RED BLEND

THE WINE
Concha Y Toro
Diablo Dark Red Blend 2018
Chile
750ml • &15.99
A wine that dazzles with its intense, deep red color and seduces with its attractive touch of black fruits and delicate notes of mocha and creamy vanilla. Diablo brings together the celebrated Maule wine region and outstanding knowledge of winemaking. Made with grapes picked at the exact moment of ripeness; delicious dark fruit notes, flavorsome, dark, and mysterious. Let Diablo seduce your senses and make a pact with the extraordinary.

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THE BOOK
Devil In The White City
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that 'The Devil in the White City' is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor.

Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing.

—Synopsis by John Moe Less, GoodReads.com