Two amateur sleuths gumshoe around French wine country,
where money, deceit, jealousy, inheritance and greed are all
the ingredients needed for crime. Master winemaker Benjamin
Cooker and his sidekick Virgile Lanssien solve mysteries in
vineyards with a dose of Epicurean enjoyment of fine food
and beverage. Each story is a homage to wine and winemakers,
as well as a mystery. In Treachery in Bordeaux,
barrels at the prestigious grand cru Moniales Haut-Brion
wine estate in Bordeaux have been contaminated. Is it
negligence or sabotage? In Grand Cru Heist,
Benjamin Cooker’s world gets turned upside down one night in
Paris. He retreats to the region around Tours to recover. He
and his assistant Virgile turn PI to solve two murders and
very particular heist. In Nightmare in Burgundy, a
dream wine tasting trip to Burgundy that turns into a
troubling nightmare when Cooker and his assistant stumble
upon a mystery revolving around messages from another era.
This made-for-TV series is "difficult to forget and oddly
addictive" (ForeWord Reviews).