Families of the Vine: Seasons among the Winemakers of Southwest France

From the author

A few friends, a good meal, a glass of wine — what could be a more simple pleasure? Why then does the subject of wine — and particularly writing about wine — often seem so darn complicated, so needlessly technical or frustratingly pretentious? In this book I wanted to tell a different story about wine, share my experience of two years spent among French winemakers and vineyards — two years in which I discovered that the story of wine from vine to glass is as much the sto…