Object
State Dinner Wine (Ceremonial Service)
A nondescript 750ml glass wine bottle with a foil-wrapped neck and an intentionally blurred label. It rests unopened among place settings or on a sideboard near the press area, its dark liquid implied rather than sampled. Staff gesture toward it and reference it as part of the State Dinner provisions; characters do not handle it in the beat as crises pull attention away from ceremonial serving.
2 appearances
Purpose
To be decanted or poured as a culinary accompaniment and used for ceremonial toasts during the State Dinner service.
Significance
Serves as a prop of ceremonial optics—its poised presence highlights the tension between planned hospitality and unfolding emergencies, and its rhetorical sidelining underlines how image management collapses when real danger intrudes.
Appearances in the Narrative
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