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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?

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Greg Mincher is a Hunter Valley-based author, wine professional, and publisher with more than thirty years of experience in the wine industry. He holds CIVC Champagne Professional credentials and has undertaken WSET Diploma-level study. In 2000 he planted Shiraz in Pokolbin, in the heart of the Hunter Valley wine region where he continues to live and work.Mincher is the founder of Vintry Editions and operates Fat Cork, a specialist Champagne retailer. His wine education titles include Champagne Confidence and Grandes Marques of Champagne. Quantum Wine: Terroir is his debut literary thriller and the first book in the Quantum Wine trilogy.www.gregmincher.com

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