I have received a message from a member who has already published a book on wine called, 'Corkscrewed'. He is American, Robert Camuto, who you may have seen on the courts, when he is not travelling around vineyards in France & Italy, writing about what he is eating & drinking. He also visits Sicily looking for traces of his ancestry. Interesting recitals of his gastronomic journeys are often published in the 'Washington Post', & you may consult these on-line on his website along with the occasional video showing him visiting vineyards & tasting their products.
He tells me has now published another book on his passions for vineyards & wines, but this time in French (His wife, Gelda is French & born in this area.) In case all this whets your appetite to know more, Robert's message to me gives the following details for perusal, & possible acquisition of a signed copy of this latest publication.
The simple ceremony will be held in the nearby bookshop of Pré-du-Lac, next Saturday morning from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. The event will be all the more convivial by the presence of another member & wine-bibber ; none other than our Michel Piffaretti, who of course will be offering the annual wine-tasting of the Beaujolais nouveau.
If the prospect of having to read a whole book in French seems daunting to some of you, my suggestion is that this may be just the Christmas present the most appropriate for some dear friend.
The bookshop-café in Pré-du-Lac is on the road to Grasse, near a bakery. See you there perhaps.
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