Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine

Amazon Best Book of the Month, July 2014Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the...
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Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine by Potter, Maximillian

Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine

$60.17

Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine

$60.17
Author: Maximillian Potter
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Amazon Best Book of the Month, July 2014

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.



Author: Maximillian Potter
Publisher: Twelve
Published: 07/29/2014
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.24w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9781455516100


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/23/2014
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2014
New York Times Book Review 12/07/2014 pg. 86

About the Author
Maximillian Potter is Esquire magazine's Editor-at-Large. Formerly the executive editor of 5280: Denver's Magazine, he has been a staff writer at Premiere, Philadelphia, and GQ, and a contributor to Vanity Fair. He was a senior advisor to Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, with whom he co-authored the governor's memoir. Potter is native of Philadelphia with a BA from Allegheny College and MSJ from Northwestern University's Medill School.

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