Shadows in the Vineyard by Maximillian Potter

Book reivew: Shadows in the Vineyard by Maximillian Potter A specific story about wine culture. This is the story of how a person tried to hold for ransom a vineyard in France, threatening to ruin the vineyard if a ransom was not paid. The vineyard in question is one that produces very exclusive high quality wine that is only available to a select few on the planet. Of particular interest in this book is the history of the French wine industry after World War II. The industry was pretty much in a shambles after the war, and a creative group of people managed to completely rebuild this industry to what some consider to be an even superior industry than before the war. While promoted as a mystery/detective story, it is really the background story of the wine culture of France that makes this worth reading.