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Peter Mayle. (2009). The Vintage Caper. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Peter Mayle. 2009. The Vintage Caper. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Peter Mayle, The Vintage Caper. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009.

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   • bioText: PETER MAYLE is the author of fifteen books, nine of them novels, including the beloved bestseller A Year in Provence. A recipient of the Légion d’Honneur from the French government for his cultural contributions, he lived in Provence with his wife, Jennie, for more than twenty-five years. Mayle died in 2018.
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A globetrotting detective story, filled with the culinary delights and entertaining characters from the national bestselling author of A Year in Provence and our most treasured chronicler of French life.
“Wine and food aficionados will find much to savor.... Light, funny, and packed with a menu’s worth of scrumptious descriptions of exceptional dinners and drinks.” —USA Today

The Vintage Caper begins high above Los Angeles with a world-class heist at the impressive wine cellar of lawyer Danny Roth. Enter Sam Levitt, former lawyer and wine connoisseur, who follows leads to Bordeaux and Provence. The unraveling of the ingenious crime is threaded through with Mayle’s seductive renderings of France’s sensory delights—from a fine Lynch-Bages to the bouillabaisse of Marseille—guaranteed to charm and inform even the most sophisticated palates.

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   • content: "Wine and food aficionados will find much to savor. . . . Light, funny, and packed with a menu's worth of scrumptious descriptions of exceptional dinners and drinks."
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   • source: National Geographic Traveler
   • content: "A succession of excellent repasts and leisurely ambles, which Mayle depicts with painterly ease and signature savoir vivre. . . . Pure Provence."
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   • source: Los Angeles Times
   • content: "A lighthearted romp . . . in which picking the right restaurant, choosing the best dish on the menu and, of course, finding the perfect wine (and female companion) to accompany the feast is every bit as important as catching the thief."
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   • source: The Washington Post
   • content: "A smooth ride you'll enjoy from beginning to end. . . . Peter Mayle's love of France is infectious. . . . The vintages are a fine complement to the action."
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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "Cinematic. . . . Meals are lovingly described, scenery comes to life, paragraphs take long floral detours. And everyone is blessed with hypersensitive taste buds. . . . By the time Levitt returns to America, readers will have learned much about the history of winemaking, the key wine regions, various auction houses, critics and books--and even how to lift fingerprints from bottles."
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   • source: The Philadelphia Inquirer
   • content: "Provides a delightful behind-the-scenes tour of France and its wines, a satisfyingly satirical view of materialistic excesses in America, a mystery that keeps the reader guessing, and a pleasing, robust finish."
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   • source: Time
   • content: "Mayle [is] something of a wonder . . . chronicling the scene around him in irresistible prose . . . the joys of a bountiful climate, brilliant sun and a splendid cuisine."
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   • source: Chattanooga Times Free Press
   • content: "Sexy is the name of the game in this book, from the sensually and lavishly appointed wines and gourmet foods to the well sculpted women. . . . This is a book that celebrates wine, food and excess of all kinds."
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   • source: The New Yorker
   • content: "[Mayle is] a writer of grace and good humor."
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    • source: Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
    • content: "Abundant with luscious descriptions of the gastronomic delights of France . . . Mayle's international caper is the vehicle for his exposition of all things French: countryside vineyards, brilliant sunsets, chateau wine cellars, exquisitely prepared dishes, and, of course, wine."
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    • source: Raleigh News-Observer
    • content: "Relentlessly entertaining. . . . Mayle has concocted a shameless guilty-pleasure bonbon in The Vintage Caper."
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    • source: San Jose Mercury News
    • content: "Whether you're going to France or just to eat, Mayle is worth reading."
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    • source: Sacramento Bee
    • content: "[Mayle] knows his wines and cuisines, evident in this mystery featuring gourmand-investigator Sam Levitt. Readers can vicariously enjoy world travel, great meals and memorable bottles of vino."
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    • source: Bookpage
    • content: "Mayle's prose bubbles with the pertness of champagne and teems with sumptuous delights. . . . His story has as many unexpected twists as the wending streets of France that are featured throughout the novel, making this one countryside romp that will both thrill and transport oenophiles and armchair travelers alike."
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    • source: Visalia Times-Delta (California)
    • content: "This light and funny mystery novel about food and wine is satisfying. . . . Aficionados will find much to savor in The Vintage Caper."
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      June 15, 2009
      Mayle uncorks a winning wine caper in the tradition of To Catch a Thief
      . When a hot-shot Hollywood lawyer's most treasured and expensive wines are stolen, his insurance company calls in Sam Levitt, a gourmand and lawyer-of-all-trades with a varied background, to investigate. The investigation takes Sam to Paris and Bordeaux, where he hooks up with the elegant insurance agent Sophie Costes, a fellow wine and food snob. The trail finally leads them to a man named Francis Reboul in Marseille, and soon, with the help of Sophie's journalist cousin, Phillipe, they get an in with Reboul and close in on closing the caper. While the plot may be predictable, the pleasures of this very French adventure—and there are many—aren't in the resolution, of course, but in the pleasant stroll through the provinces and in the glasses of wine downed and decadent meals consumed.

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      August 1, 2009
      The celebrated author (A Good Year, 2004, etc.) introduces a wine-savvy sleuth who traces an L.A. cellar heist back to France.
      
      Light, slight and very tidy, Mayle's sixth novel wastes no time on superfluous characters or subplots. Its pared-down story line features vain Hollywood entertainment lawyer Danny Roth, whose pride in his $3 million wine collection leads to a boastful article about it in the L.A. Times and then its theft. Attractive insurance agent Elena Morales hires ex-boyfriend Sam Levitt, a hunk with a nose for fine vintages, to track it down. The trail leads to Marseille via Paris and Bordeaux, affording Mayle many opportunities for travel guide–type asides:"High on the Corniche Kennedy, the restaurant offers an irresistible combination of fresh fish, fresh air and a glittering view of the Frioul islands." Levitt's companion is another insurance agent, attractive Sophie Costes, whose presence makes Elena jealous. Sam, suspecting billionaire tycoon and wine-collector Francis Reboul of the theft, pretends to be a publisher working on a book on private cellars, gains access to Reboul's vast collection, discovers Roth's fingerprints on some of the bottles and steals the stolen wine back. No hitches, no glitches, and Sam gets the girl too.
      
      The term"easy read" was surely invented for this amiable but scorchingly efficient amusement that comes with the added benefit of menu and wine-list recommendations.

      (COPYRIGHT (2009) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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      May 15, 2009
      Never was a novel more aptly titled than this latest effort by Englishman Mayle, who has staked out the south of France not only as hispersonal stomping grounds but also as the setting for numerous delightful books, both fiction and nonfiction, beginning, of course, with A Year in Provence (1990), a delectable account of Mayles experiences in his adopted homeland. The vintage part of this title refers to rare and expensive wine. The caper part adds the element of stolen rare and expensive wine. Danny Roth is a Hollywood lawyer whose wine collection is his pride and joy. One day a major portion of that collection turns up missing, and his insurance companybefore handing over the $3 million Roth feels the bottles are worthhires an investigator to look into the matter. The California setting soon gives way to Mayles trademark south of France, and the trail to resolving the case provides a richly atmospheric ride for the reader. Mayle delivers what is almost a French version of Robert B. Parkers Spenser novels: good, clean writing; a sophisticated and mouthwatering use of food and wine as the storys upholstery; and a quick yet captivating plot, well sprinkled with humor. This novel is a special invitation for newbiesto begin appreciating Mayles talent as a writer.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)

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“Wine and food aficionados will find much to savor.... Light, funny, and packed with a menu’s worth of scrumptious descriptions of exceptional dinners and drinks.” —USA Today

The Vintage Caper begins high above Los Angeles with a world-class heist at the impressive wine cellar of lawyer Danny Roth. Enter Sam Levitt, former lawyer and wine connoisseur, who follows leads to Bordeaux and Provence. The unraveling of the ingenious crime is threaded through with Mayle’s seductive renderings of France’s sensory delights—from a fine Lynch-Bages to the bouillabaisse of Marseille—guaranteed to charm and inform even the most sophisticated palates.

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