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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Benjamin Lebel is hired by the son of a wealthy estate owner, Jean Guillame Ubayre's son, William, to conduct an assessment of his family's vineyards in Saint-Vivant (Bourgogne?). He takes Mathilde along on this tour, and together, they encounter a murder, a suicide attempt, a series of thefts and several blackmail schemes. As usual, the local police inspector is a cl...
Benjamin Lebel is invited by the prestigious Burgundy 'Tastevin' society host Roger Vincenot in the jury of their annual tasting. Major wine merchant Bernard Aristide, expected to be on business trip, arrives and rudely demands the seat of honor, only to die from the cup which does passes by Benjamin. Although unwelcome to the police, he insists to start his own inves...
Benjamin is contacted by the Strassburg police as possibly the last person to have talked, by phone, to murdered reporter Odile, who may have sent him her last article draft. She was working on the bitter, even crazy rivalry between old, dying traditional wine estate owner Vincent Kreutzler and Swiss investment banker Edgar Loewen, who buys many Alsation estates.
Benjamin travels with France to the Jura region where she is acting as an advisor on the acquisition of a vineyard. The previous owner of the vineyard, known for its vin jaune, apparently committed suicide two weeks prior to the events in this episode. Or was it murder?