Recipes From The French Wine Harvest

Throughout the wine regions of France, the annual harvest brings together people of all ages and backgrounds to pick the grapes. It's hard and hungry work and, traditionally, the vineyard owner and family feed their temporary army of workers the sort of hearty food (and drink) they need to be out among the vines from dawn to dusk. The recipes for these harvest feasts have often been in the family for generations and, region by region, represent an unbroken link with the strong traditions of rural French family cooking.

This book describes the harvest cooking of the six great wine-growing areas: Burgundy, Rhone, Bordeaux, Loire, Champagne and Alsace. You'll also visit some of France's greatest chateaux and domains: La Fleur Petrus, Lynch-Bages, Vieux Telegraph, Guigal, Louis Roederer and Zind-Humbrecht to meet the families and individuals behind the wine labels.