Potter Maximillian - Shadows In The Vineyard The True Story Of A Plot To Poison The World's Greatest Wine - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: ONE OF THE WALL Street Journal's FIVE BEST Books ON WINE Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romance - Conti Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine. In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romance - Conti the tiny storied vineyard that produces the most expensive exquisite wines in the world received an anonymous note threatening the destruction of his priceless vines by poison - a crime that in the world of high - end wine is akin to murder - unless he paid a one million euro ransom. Villaine believed it to be a sick joke but that proved a fatal miscalculation and the crime shocked this fabled region of France. The sinister story that Vanity Fair journalist Maximillian Potter uncovered would lead to a sting operation by some of France's top detectives the primary suspect's suicide and a dramatic investigation. This botanical crime threatened to destroy the fiercely traditional culture surrounding the world's greatest wine. Shadows in the Vineyard takes us deep into a captivating world full of fascinating characters small - town French politics an unforgettable narrative and a local culture defined by the twinned veins of excess and vitality and the deep reverent attention to the land that runs through it.
Title: Shadows In The Vineyard The True Story Of A Plot To Poison The World's Greatest Wine
Author(s): Potter Maximillian
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Barcode: 9781455516100
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 7/29/2014
Category: Wines