PLOT TO POISON ROMANÉE CONTI: THE BOOK
From a NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO interview on July 26, 2014 8:34
Romanée-Conti — the legendary French vineyard — produces one of the most elegant and extravagantly-priced wines in the world.
In January 2010, proprietor Aubert de Villaine received a threat to his livelihood, if not his life: Pay more than 1 million euros in ransom, or his Burgundy vines would be poisoned.
Maximillian Potter first wrote about this plot for Vanity Fair and has now authored a book called Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine (cover, left).This wine, he tells National Public Radio’s Scott Simon, is really something special: « Without being overly hyperbolic, it’s definitely the finest flavor I’ve even had in my mouth, » he says, I drank it and … I was immediately filled with an incredible warmth. It just seemed like something that was alive and wonderful and warm« . (suite…)