By Martin Walker
While a bevy of winemakers descend on Saint-Denis, competing for its land and spurring resentment one of the villagers, the idyllic town—where Benoit “Bruno” Courreges is the town’s in simple terms policeman—finds itself the heart of an severe drama, with suspicious fires on the agricultural learn station that's engaged on genetically-modified crops.
younger men—Max, an environmentalist who hopes to make natural wine, and Fernando, the inheritor to an American wine fortune—become opponents for the affections of Jacqueline, a flirtatious, newly arrived Québécoise pupil of wine. occasions develop ever darker, culminating in suspicious deaths, and Bruno unearths that the issues of the current are by no means faraway from these of the prior.
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