Grape expectations
Subtitle: a family's vineyard adventure in France
By: Caro Feely
Publisher: Summersdale
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chichester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780857657169; 9780857657152; 9781849532570
Subjects: Homes and haunts; Vintners; Social life and customs; HISTORY; TRAVEL; Homes; Manners and customs
Description: "'Delicious.' I licked my lips. The wine filled me with joy. A picture of a vineyard drenched in sunlight formed in my mind. Sean drew me rudely back to the lounge of our semi-d.'How can they be in liquidation if they make wine this good?'"When Caro and Sean find the perfect ten-hectare vineyard in Saussignac, it seems their dreams of becoming wine-makers in the south of France are about to come true. But they arrive in France with their young family (a toddler and a newborn) to be faced with a dilapidated eighteenth-century farmhouse and an enterprise that may never, ever make them.
Table of contents: title: Front Cover; About the Author; Note from the Author; Contents; Prologue; Chapter 1; title: Beware the Dream; Chapter 2; title: Goodbye Pay Cheques, Hello Château; Chapter 3; title: Homesick; Chapter 4; title: Six Tons of Chicken Poo and No 'Épandeur'; Chapter 5; title: Tangling with Red Tape; Chapter 6; title: Shark Attack; Chapter 7; title: Poil de Vache; Chapter 8; title: Summer; Chapter 9; title: Vendanges!; Chapter 10; title: Of Fingers and Foresters; Chapter 11; title: Digging Grapes; Chapter 12; title: Vineyard Rights; Chapter 13; title: Goodbye Owl, Hello Château; Chapter 14; title: Lessons in Lunacy; Chapter 15; title: In the Merde with the Merlot.; title: Chapter 16; title: Vendanges TranquillesChapter 17; title: French Wine Adventures; Chapter 18; title: La Source; Chapter 19; title: Pre-school Gourmands; Chapter 20; title: Goodbye Château?; Message from the Author; Acknowledgements.