num_pages: 304
description: A delightful, best-selling tale about the business and pleasure of wine, adapted into a Ridley Scott movie starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard.Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he has inherited his late uncle’s vineyard in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delicious, the food even better, and two of the locals ravishing. Unfortunately, the wine produced on his new property is swill. Why then are so many people interested in it? Enter a beguiling Californian who knows more about wine than Max does—and may have a better claim to the estate. Fizzy with intrigue, bursting with local color and savor,  A Good Year  is Peter Mayle, beloved author of A Year in Provence , at his most entertaining.
language: English
title: A Good Year
titlecomplete: A Good Year
genres: Fiction, France, Wine, Humor, Romance, Novels, Travel, Contemporary, Audiobook, Food
ratings_count: 9354
publisher: Vintage