By Grand Cru & Etiquette

The first issue of The GC&E Review begins with a simple, unsettling idea: in a boardroom, what is truly decided is almost never said aloud. Power speaks softly — in the wine that’s poured, the pause held a beat too long, the restaurant that’s chosen. An initiation into the language no one teaches, and everyone is expected to speak.

Francesco Cosci turns wine into a social grammar in conversation; the Historian Loïc Bienassis explains why the map is forever changing while the logic never does; and we read why Paris no longer dares say what it thinks — and why its authority lies precisely there. Running throughout, the interiors of Edvard Munch, where every silence around a table becomes a confession.

This is not an issue about wine, but about everything that unfolds around the glass.

With Thanks To

Francesco Cosci, Wine Director, Le Bristol Paris, Paris • Jean-Charles Letellier, Founder of Vinifield, Bordeaux • Loïc Bienassis, Historian and Research Officer, IEHCA, University of Tours • Léna Guillou, Marketing Manager, Maison Legrand Filles et Fils, Paris • Jeneviève Saint-Jacques, Ambassadrice de l'Art de Vivre, Paris.

Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe, Lausanne, Switzerland • Munchmuseet, Oslo, Norway • Maison Legrand Filles et Fils, Paris, France • Domaine Henri Bourgeois, Sancerre, France • The University of Chicago Press, USA • Harvard University Press, USA • Editions Points, France.