Strong Wine Red As Blood

In search of prestige as well as profits, a rapacious American conglomerate sends one of its rising stars, a 34 year old corporate raider, to Bordeaux to find, buy and run a “suitable” chateau. It doesn’t matter which one, as long as it’s famous, and it doesn’t matter who he drives out or hurts. But he comes up against traditions he doesn’t understand, is thwarted by the weather, by a major wine fraud, and by the chateau owner’s strong willed daughter.

“Rich and full bodied novel…tells us everything about wine from the grape up”
William Cole--Saturday Review

A captivating, thoroughly enjoyable novel…Daley has captured the atmosphere of tradition and cob-webbed wine cellars and mixed it with the specter of fraud, and of wine made not from grapes but from ox-blood and rat poison
Bill Brashler--Chicago Sun-Times
“Irresistable topical entertainment” ---George Harmon, Chicago Daily News