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by Monty Waldin (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Portico (4 Sep 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1906032289
  • ISBN-13: 978-1906032289
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 133,244 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"His story is informative and fascinating, and it left this reviewer ready to search out biodynamic wines for a tasting." --Kate Turner, for Waterstones Books Quarterly, Winter 2008

"Waldin upped sticks to the Pyrenees...a brave, if slightly bonkers move that's amusingly captured in this entertaining first person account. A funny, down to earth read." --French Magazine, September 2008


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Top wine critic and author, Monty Waldin, has decided to put his money where his opinionated mouth is and pack it all in to make wine biodynamically in rural France. He has just over a year to turn 5.4 acres into top selling organic wine. Renovating an old cabin on his vineyard so he can babysit his vines 24/7, his only company will be his donkey and occasionally his high maintenance girlfriend Silvana when she jets in from Italy. Regarded by peers as a bit loopy because of his views about Biodynamics, and even as the enfant terrible of the wine world (he's upset the establishment for his harsh criticisms of the wine industry), Monty's nonetheless forged a successful career and written several award-winning books...But now he's abandoning life behind the laptop for a new one making his own wine in the French Pyrenees.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Much better than a mere companion to the TV show., 3 Mar 2009
By D. Shiach (Los Angeles, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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You have to admire Waldin for his courage. Not just the chucking in of his previous career and his attempts at making his own wine but also the manner in which he has gone about it.
This is a charming romp through the first year on his rustic vineyard, dealing with the variety of trials and tribulations that befall him (anyone with who has ever suffered back ache can sympathise.) As well as moments of humanity and levity.
And if you are lucky enough to have got hold of some of the end product - it sold out in days - you will see that Waldin was very successful indeed.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Who edited this then?, 27 Feb 2009
This is an interesting subject and a better format than the "I spent a year with a load of foreign wierdos" that we have been bombarded by in recent years. The problem seems to be in the editing, in addition to several typos or grammatical fouls the reader is often treated like a fool - one assumes to pander to an american market - and simple points about wine making or biodiversity are repeated or laboured to death.
The book could have done with being 20% shorter, had the characters developed and not put together like a collection of articles from a cheap wine magazine.
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