A globetrotting detective story, filled with the culinary delights and
entertaining characters from the national bestselling author of A Year
in Provence and our most treasured chronicler of French life.
"Wine and food aficionados will find much to savor.... Light, funny, and
packed with a menu's worth of scrumptious descriptions of exceptional
dinners and drinks." --USA Today
The Vintage Caper begins high above Los Angeles with a world-class
heist at the impressive wine cellar of lawyer Danny Roth. Enter Sam
Levitt, former lawyer and wine connoisseur, who follows leads to
Bordeaux and Provence. The unraveling of the ingenious crime is threaded
through with Mayle's seductive renderings of France's sensory
delights--from a fine Lynch-Bages to the bouillabaisse of
Marseille--guaranteed to charm and inform even the most sophisticated
palates.