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

The storyplot begins high above LA, in the extravagant house and equally impressive wine cellar of entertainment lawyer Danny Roth. However, after inviting the LA Times to create a thorough profile extolling the liquid treasures of his collection, Roth finds himself the victim of about The Vintage Caper a world-class wine heist.

Enter Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, cultivated crime expert, and wine connoisseur. Known as in by Roth’s insurance provider, which is now saddled with a multimillion-dollar state, Sam comes after his leads-to Bordeaux and its own magnificent vineyards, and to Provence to meet up an eccentric billionaire collector who might possibly don’t mind spending time in the stolen wines. On the way, bien sûr, he’s joined by a beautiful and erudite French colleague, and jointly they navigate many a château, pausing regularly to take pleasure from the countryside’s abundant pleasures.

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