Cut From The Same Cloth: A Tale of Bordeaux

By Glyn Gowans

Set in Bordeaux in the early 2000s, local lad Jean-Claude Bourjois, the technical director of top-flight vineyard Ch teau La Fayette, just wants a quiet life making classic claret. But the aspirations of his sophisticated Parisian wife - an unsuccessful artist - and the greed of La Fayette's aristocratic owner, are creating serious dilemmas for Jean-Claude.

Rescue seems at hand when two of the world's leading wine experts - dynamic young American Laura Appleton and ageing British playboy Quincy Dubloon - invite Jean-Claude to join them in transforming Ch teau Belle-M re, an obscure bankrupt vineyard with potential. Laura, however, has an obsessive ulterior motive in luring handsome Jean-Claude away from La Fayette; Quincy's clandestine enterprises in Bordeaux would shock both Laura and Jean-Claude. Yet none of them could ever imagine the machinations of Belle-M re's bitter ex-owners.

Even though the web of deceit begins to unravel when all three partners move into Belle-M re's rambling ch teau, Bordeaux itself - 'Europe's most civilised city' - has the last laugh, ensuring that everyone gets their just deserts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1836153406
• ISBN13: 9781836153405
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing Limited
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"