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  • Vino Business

  • The Cloudy World of French Wine
  • By: Isabelle Saporta
  • Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
  • Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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By: Isabelle Saporta
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Summary

Already provoking debate and garnering significant attention in France and within the wine world, Vino Business is a surprising and eye-opening book about the dark side of French wine by acclaimed investigative journalist Isabelle Saporta.

While Bordeaux has been a bastion of winemaking tradition and excellence for centuries, in recent decades the industry has changed dramatically under the influence of large-scale international investors. French insurance companies, international fashion houses, and Chinese businessmen are all speculating on the area's wines and land, some of whose value has increased tenfold in the last decade alone. Saporta investigates in detail the 2012 classification of the wines of Saint-Émilion, the most prestigious appellation of Bordeaux's right bank, which has come into disrepute, not least because the scoring system was changed in order to give points for a châteaux's lecture facilities and the size of its parking lot.

A shocking exposé of the French wine world and a cri de coeur for the lost values of traditional winemaking, Vino Business pulls back the curtain on the secret domain of Bordeaux, a land ever more in thrall to the grapes of wealth.

©2014 Éditions Albin Michel. Translation copyright 2015 by Kate Deimling. Recorded by arrangement with Grove Atlantic, Inc. (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
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Excellent narration

I can’t understand the negative comments about the narrator. She eases out of English and into French and back again with enviable smoothness and clarity. What a story too, which has made me as a lifelong claret lover rethink my affinity to Bordeaux.

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