Families of the Vine
Subtitle: Seasons Among the Winemakers of Southwest France
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: April 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780060559649
Subjects: Wine and wine making; Vintners; Description And Travel; Wine And Wine-Making; Travel - Foreign; Travel; Wine industry; Travel / Europe / France; Europe - France; Beverages - Wine & Spirits; France, Southwest
First sentence: When you drive up to Clos de Gamot, a vineyard owned by Yves and Mar-tine Jouffreau-Hermann (referred to from here on as the Jouffreaus) in the Lot River valley in southwest France, there is no allée of hundred-year-old plane trees, no expanse of coiffed lawn rolling up to an old stone château whose leaded glass windows and lichened roof slates whisper of great age and past nobility.