The Ripening Sun - One Woman and the Creation of a Vineyard

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Atkinson has already been the subject of a Channel 4 documentary and there is further TV interest in bringing her life up to date. She has featured in interviews in The Times , Observer and the Evening Standard , and on Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time. She owns and runs the award-winning Clos d'Yvigne vineyard in the beautiful Bordeaux wine region of France. Patricia Atkinson is also the author of La Belle Saison, her second book about living and working the land in South West France. Klappentext Patricia Atkinson has already been the subject of a Channel 4 documentary and there is further TV interest in bringing her life up to date. She has featured in interviews in The Times , Observer and the Evening Standard , and on Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time. She owns and runs the award-winning Clos d'Yvigne vineyard in the beautiful Bordeaux wine region of France. Patricia Atkinson is also the author of La Belle Saison, her second book about living and working the land in South West France. Zusammenfassung What follows is a remarkable story of struggle and transformation whereby her tiny 4 hectare plot has become a major estate of 21 hectares, where her Clos d'Yvigne wines have won awards and been adopted by wine merchants throughout the world and where she has been hailed as a superstar by UK wine writers.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Atkinson, Atkinson Patricia
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2004
• EAN: 9780099443162
• ISBN: 978-0-09-944316-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; France, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, COOKING / Beverages / Alcoholic / Wine, Travel writing