Families of the Vine
Subtitle: Seasons Among the Winemakers of Southwest France (P.S.)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: April 4, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780060559656
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.