His Last Burgundy (vol. IX)
The Baden-Baden wine festival, with four thousand wines from around the world up for evaluation, is just around the corner. The judging panel’s leading luminary is Alan Amber, a renowned and influential wine critic whose controversial hundred-point grading system has rocketed some growers to riches while plunging others into bankruptcy and ruin.
But Amber is found dead in his hotel room. The festival’s promoter asks Henry Meyenbeeker to make some discreet enquiries. As investigations progress, it becomes clear that there’s more than one person who wanted to see Amber dead...
- Story is set in the region around the Kaiserstuhl, Germany
Paul Grote is Germany’s best-known author of wine-related crime novels. He first discovered his interest in wine and wine-growing while working as a reporter in South America, and has since developed it into a primary focus. He has visited all of the major wine-growing regions in Europe and published eighteen crime novels centred around wine.
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