num_pages: 304
description: 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.
language: English
title: Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine
publisher: Twelve