Grape expectations

By Caro Feely

Subjects: HISTORY, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Vintners, Homes and haunts, France, social life and customs, Homes, TRAVEL

Description: "'Delicious.' I licked my lips. The wine filled me with joy. A picture of a vineyard drenched in sunlight formed in my mind. Sean drew me rudely back to the lounge of our semi-d.'How can they be in liquidation if they make wine this good?'"When Caro and Sean find the perfect ten-hectare vineyard in Saussignac, it seems their dreams of becoming wine-makers in the south of France are about to come true. But they arrive in France with their young family (a toddler and a newborn) to be faced with a dilapidated eighteenth-century farmhouse and an enterprise that may never, ever make them.