num_pages: 178
description: Winemaker Oliver Caron is used to micromanaging so when a misguided Vegas marriage and a series of interlocking poor decisions lead to him accidentally introducing a one-night stand as his new husband he cant let the matter lie. Driven by social embarrassment and the anxiety that the messy truth might kill off his ninety-nine year old grandmother Oliver finds himself married to one James Dean Jackson. Hustler card-counter lapdancer drifter  Dean is seemingly a chronic liar a human tumbleweed incapable of putting down roots. By contrast Oliver is as deeply rooted as the grape vines that are his livelihood. Olivers idea of heaven is a 1945 Chateau dYquem while Dean thinks veraison is a cellphone provider and once almost did the Pinot Noir monologue from Sideways over a Laurent-Perrier Ros. As the season unfolds and the grapes ripen the mismatched pair begin to discover that playing the perfect husband isnt so hard after all especially when the other person might just have the thing you were missing all along.
language: English
title: The James Dean Vintage
publisher: None