Quantum Wine (Paperback)
Greg Mincher
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Add to basketSold by CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Add to basketPaperback. What if the greatest wines don't just reflect where they come from - they remember it?Alex Hartley is a London-based wine writer with a reputation for precision and a career built on scepticism. When a chance encounter with an aged Hunter Valley Semillon produces an experience she cannot explain - a vivid, inexplicable flash of place, memory, and sensation - she dismisses it as imagination.She's wrong.Drawn into the orbit of a reclusive scientist's suppressed research, Alex begins to unravel a discovery that challenges everything she thought she knew about wine, consciousness, and the nature of place itself. Dr Elizabeth Chen had a theory: that certain wines, under certain conditions, could store quantum information - fragments of environment, event, and human presence, locked into the bottle and released decades later to those sensitive enough to receive them.Chen's research was buried. Alex is about to find out why.Quantum Wine: Terroir is a literary thriller set between the wine cellars of London and the ancient soils of the Hunter Valley, where science and sensory experience collide in ways that are deeply unsettling - and impossible to ignore.For readers who believe that a great wine tells a story, this novel asks: what if that story is true? A literary thriller in which the science of wine becomes something far more dangerous. Book one of the Quantum Wine trilogy. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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One sip. Forty years of memory. And someone will kill to keep it secret.
Wine writer Alex Hartley doesn't believe in the impossible—until she tastes a 1986 Hunter Valley Semillon and experiences someone else's memory. She's standing in an Australian vineyard four decades earlier, feeling scorching heat, hearing cicadas, living a moment that isn't hers.
A woman's voice: "This is the vintage that will prove them all wrong."
That woman was Dr. Elizabeth Chen. Brilliant scientist. Dismissed as delusional. Dead three years.
Chen spent forty years documenting quantum wine—consciousness stored through quantum biology. The scientific establishment destroyed her for it.
She was right.
Now the collector who hosted the tasting is dead. Researchers across three continents are vanishing. A covert organisation has weaponised quantum wine for interrogation and memory manipulation. They've killed to protect their monopoly.
And Alex just made their research public.
To vindicate the dead, she must survive the living.
A mind-bending literary thriller blending cutting-edge quantum theory with the sensory world of wine. For readers who loved Blake Crouch's Dark Matter, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary, Bridget Collins's The Binding, and Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures.
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