Strong Wine Red As Blood [Mass Market Paperback]

Robert Daley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 12, 1976

In search of prestige as well as profits, a rapacious American conglomerate sends one of its rising stars, a 34 year old corporate raider, to Bordeaux to find, buy and run a "suitable" chateau.  It doesn't matter which one, as long as it's famous, and it doesn't matter who he drives out or hurts. But he comes up against traditions he doesn't understand, is thwarted by the weather, by a major wine fraud, and by the chateau owner's strong willed daughter.

Editorial Reviews

Review

 
A captivating, thoroughly enjoyable novel...Daley has captured the atmosphere of tradition and cob-webbed wine cellars and mixed it with the specter of fraud.
                                               --Chicago Sun-Times
 
--Chicago Sun-Times

"A book that has both body and bouquet" 

--N.Y. Times Book Review

Rich and full bodied novel...tells us everything about wine from the grape up"
                                               
--Saturday Review

From the Author

The best thing when writing about wine is that you get invited into the houses, and some of the Bordeaux chateaus are quite magnificent. Margaux with its alley of trees. Lafite with its elegant museum. LaGaffeliere with its old, old paintings. Yquem with its turrets. One year we lived for a week in the Chateau Haut Brion. These people are professional hosts, the dinners are sumptuous, and the wines sometimes extremely rare. At Chateau Angludet Peter Sichel once served us an 1876 Lafite. It is very hard, if you spend time in Bordeaux, not to fall in love with the city, with the vineyards, and with the wine. 

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (February 12, 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345249143
• ISBN-13: 978-0345249142
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 3.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,224,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Strong Red Wine a Blood, March 9, 2011

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Jack Trout (Old Greenwich, CT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strong Wine Red as Blood (Kindle Edition)

This book, set principally in Bordeaux, starts with a rapacious New York conglomerate exiling a too pushy young executive to France to find and buy a prestigious wine chateau. The executive, his career derailed, wants only to get back to New York, but he falls in love both with a chateau owner's strong willed daughter, and with the somber beauty of the wine country itself. All this is combined with enormous and fascinating lore about how the great wines are made, even as a tenacious Fraud Brigade detective tries to prove that an isolated chateau is turning out fraudulent wines. It is full of tension. Will the fraud be exposed? Will the grapes be brought in before storms ruin the harvest? What will happen to the young executive? Previously I had no great interest in wines apart from drinking them, but this novel made a convert of me. It is a great read.