From the author of The Physician and Shaman comes this story of a
young man - the grapes he grows, the wine he fashions, the women he
loves, and his struggle against an evil that seeks to destroy him.
Already an international best seller.
Josep Alvarez is a young man in the tiny grape-growing village of Santa
Eulália, in Northern Spain, where his father grows black grapes that are
turned into cheap vinegar. Joseph loves the agricultural life, but he is
the second son, and his father's vineyard will be inherited by his
brother Donat, the firstborn. Josep needs to keep his hands in the soil.
He yearns for a job growing grapes and for an opportunity to marry
Teresa Gallego.
In Madrid, an assassination plot conceived against the political leader
of Spain by men of wealth and power creates a storm of intrigue that
sucks into its vortex a group of innocent young farm workers in Santa
Eulália. How Josep's life is changed drastically by these events and
how, ironically, they gradually turn him into an inspired vintner with
an evolving vision of life is the fascinating story of The Winemaker.
