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Virgile's Vineyard A Year In The Languedoc Wine Country

(PB )

by:
Moon, Patrick

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Product Details:

PB :

288 Pages

Publisher:

John Murray

Pub. Date:

Jul 10, 2004

Photos:

Black and White Illustrations

Our Part #:

06098

ISBN-10:

0719565170

ISBN-13:

9780719565175

Description:

Inheriting a badly neglected house in the south of France, Patrick Moon sets out to discover how the Languedoc has managed to transform itself into one of the world’s most exciting wine regions. Virgile, a young winemaker passionately devoted to perfection, offers to initiate Patrick into the mysteries of each season’s work. At the other extreme is Manu, Patrick’s dipsomaniac neighbor, a diehard traditionalist producing a private wine–lake of unspeakable rouge.

With Manu as his self–appointed guide, Patrick embarks on a series of lively encounters with growers as varied as the wines themselves. In between these bucolic expeditions, the author struggles to deal with his dilapidated inheritance--an unfamiliar and unpredictable world where the brambles are as tall as the olive trees, the water supply has dried up, and a ferocious animal lies in wait under the roof tiles.

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