01The take
Ben Flajnik.
A Sonoma winemaker takes the mansion after a prior run on the sister franchise — the kind of casting the producers had been refining since Andrew Firestone's vineyard run nine seasons earlier. Travel dates revisit prestige stops: Park City, San Francisco, Puerto Rico, Belize, Switzerland. The cocktail-party energy reads more confrontational than the prior winter, and the producers lean into it. Chris Harrison hosts a season remembered for casting friction more than romance.
03Where it sits in the canon
The #17 slot.
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06Also appears in
Cross-references.
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