25 - The Blood of the Vine | Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noël Balen

While walking through the vineyards of Gaillac, could the famous oenologist Benjamin Cooker suspect that the premature death of a young colleague, with supposedly exceptional nose, actually concealed vineyard walls from another time? When pigeon dung served as fertilizer for the vines planted in the area of Lisle-sur-Tarn! In the land of a thousand dovecotes, Cooker and his assistant Virgile come across an unsettling Luxembourg banker, a rather suspicious disappearance, and two old maids who have returned to the place where their father, then a humble sharecropper, was murdered... fifty years ago! In a landscape with a hint of Tuscany, where the Autan wind blows and wild rumors swirl, it will take all the perspicacity of our two Bordeaux friends to solve this double intrigue, as mysterious as it is infinitely venomous. Jean-Pierre Alaux is a journalist on the radio and in the epicurean press. He lives and writes amidst the vineyards of the Lot valley. Noël Balen is a writer and screenwriter. Also a musician, he divides his time between composition and music production. His village is Paris. The series "Le sang de la vigne" is now adapted for television, with Pierre Arditi in the lead role.