| Author: |
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Patrick Moon
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| Title: |
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Virgile's Vineyard: A Year in the Languedoc Wine Country |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
| Binding: |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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280 |
| Date: |
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2004-09-01 |
| ISBN: |
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0719565170 |
| Publisher: |
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John Murray Publishers |
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0.4 pounds |
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4.96 x 0.75 x 7.6 inches |
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2 Veronica (France), Jenny (United Kingdom) |
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2 Jenny (United Kingdom), bookreadera (USA: PA) |
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Product Description
Among the rich cast of characters he meets during his year of exploration is Virgile, a young local wine-maker who offers to initiate Patrick into the mysteries of each season's work in the fields and in the cellar. Virgile is passionately committed to perfection, though he operates on a shoestring. At the other extreme is Manu, Patrick's dipsomaniac neighbour, a diehard traditionalist producing a private wine-lake of unspeakable rouge. With Manu as his self-appointed guide, Patrick embarks on a tour of the region's wine makers - a succession of lively encounters with growers as varied as the wines themselves. Interwoven are digressions into the history of the region and its wine-making, from the earliest plantings by the Greeks and Romans. Meanwhile, the author struggles to deal with his dilapidated inheritance - an unfamiliar and unpredictable world where the brambles have grown as tall as the olive trees, the water supply has just dried up and there is a ferocious animal under the roof tiles.
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