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The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine
Twelve
August 2014
On Sale: July 29, 2014
304 pages ISBN: 1455516104 EAN: 9781455516100 Hardcover
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Mystery | True Crime
Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to
destroy the vines of La Romanée-Conti, Burgundy's finest and
most expensive wine. In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of
the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, the tiny, storied vineyard
that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the
world, received an anonymous note threatening the
destruction of his priceless vines by poison-a crime that in
the world of high-end wine is akin to murder-unless he paid
a one million euro ransom. Villaine believed it to be a sick
joke, but that proved a fatal miscalculation and the crime
shocked this fabled region of France. The sinister story
that Vanity Fair journalist Maximillian Potter uncovered
would lead to a sting operation by some of France's top
detectives, the primary suspect's suicide, and a dramatic
investigation. This botanical crime threatened to destroy
the fiercely traditional culture surrounding the world's
greatest wine. SHADOWS IN THE VINEYARD takes us deep into a captivating
world full of fascinating characters, small-town French
politics, an unforgettable narrative, and a local culture
defined by the twinned veins of excess and vitality and the
deep reverent attention to the land that runs through it.
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