A wine expert in the Bordeax region of France,is caught up in murders each episode...the scenery is beautiful,the characters are very engaging,and if you like wine and its beginnings you may very well enjoy this series...the main character is perhaps suave and knowledgeable of things in and around the wines of France....he writes books or guides on the subject,in the series...and occasionally goes to wineries all over the region... (imdb)
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Les larmes de Pasquin (2011)
- S1E1
Bordeaux-based enologist (wine expert) Benjamin Lebel interrupts work on his next original wine publication, assisted by haughty relative and eager Virgile, to identify a Grand Cru château from Pomerol for police detective Barbaroux. It's used as signature in a ritual, filling one glass more each time, at a serial killer's successive murder scenes and a wartime tomb.
Oenologue Benjamin Lebel, eagerly accompanied by his slick assistant Silvère, travels to the Cognac region to counsel a prospective Japanese buyer Hiroshi Tanaka about the possible take-over of legendary brandy family firm Aludel. He's shown the door by partner-siblings Pierre-François and Garance, but their apparently gay brother Baptiste, who has an eye on Silvère.
La robe de Margaux (2012)
- S1E3
Benjamin Lebel is startled to find his daughter Margaux back from New York, actually for her boyfriend, prestigious Château Belfleur's communications director Antoine Rinetti, whose proposal she announces to accept to spite daddy. For her sake, assistant Silvère is eager to help investigate the new ownership and wine-maker Séverin. Unlike Benjamin, his lover-colleague...
Mission à Pessac (2012)
- S1E4
Benjamin was to prepare a Californian conference as keynote speaker with his lover France, but she ends up writing the speech with his eager assistant Silvère as Lebel prefers more wine estate snooping. Denis and Jeanne Laville's wine-maker was murdered in their Pessac winery. The victim was co-heir to a tiny, yet potentially priceless breakaway top-quality estate.