The Vintage Caper Audiobook (Free)

Occur Hollywood, Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseille, Peter Mayle’s newest and most delightful novel is filled up with culinary delights, sumptuous wines, and colorful personas. It’s also lots of fun.

The storyplot begins high above Los Angeles, in the extravagant house and equally impressive wine cellar of entertainment lawyer Danny Roth. Sadly, after inviting the LA Times to write an extensive profile extolling the liquid treasures of his collection, Roth finds himself the sufferer of about The Vintage Caper a world-class wines heist.

Enter Sam Levitt, previous corporate lawyer, cultivated crime professional, and wines connoisseur. Known as in by Roth’s insurance provider, which is now saddled with a multimillion-dollar claim, Sam comes after his leads-to Bordeaux and its own magnificent vineyards, also to Provence to meet up an eccentric billionaire collector who might possibly have an interest in the taken wines. On the way, bien sûr, he’s joined by a lovely and erudite French colleague, and collectively they navigate many a château, pausing frequently to enjoy the countryside’s abundant pleasures.

The unraveling from the ingenious crime is threaded through with Mayle’s seductive rendering of France’s sensory delights-from an excellent Lynch-Bages and Léoville Barton towards the bouillabaisse of Marseille and the young lamb of Bordeaux. Also the most sophisticated of oenophiles will learn something or two from this classic work by a beloved author.