Wine, Glory and Kindness
Wine, glory and kindness, a thick album that immerses the reader in the heart of Bordeaux wine country in company with Annabelle de la Poisse.
She is a Parisian journalist, idle – sentimentally speaking – after a recent divorce, she arrives in Bordeaux for a three-month mission as a-wine-specialist journalist to write an article about the local milieu, for her father's paper.
This story, with Bordeaux country soil as background, taking place somewhere between local vineyards and posh parties of the old Bordeaux nobility, recounts the fluctuating moods of the depressive Parisian journalist.
Through her naive eyes, we are able to penetrate a very peculiar environment, quite remote from the daily life of most urban or provincial newspaper readers. She is shown by the authors as wandering between visits, tours and wine exhibitions in a society where everyone follows those stilted – in fact quite cheesy – peculiar codes of the Bordeaux milieu.
Nothing new here for anyone already well informed about the region, habits and customs of wealthy members of the Bordeaux milieu, whose weekends are spent routinely at Arcachon basin. Of course, my dear.
With their semi-cartoonish and expressive drawing, Isabelle Bunisset and Giuseppe Liotti are guiding us along a social chronicle of 140 pages in heart of Bordeaux vineyards, with the atmosphere of Bordeaux high society quite correctly transcribed in black and white or gray wash. The artists fill in their work with an array of fitting designer's sets, but the emphasis is not really totally focused on this aspect. Despite so many pages, one remains a bit frustrated as to the outcome of this slightly disappointing story.
Through her naive eyes, we are able to penetrate a very peculiar environment, quite remote from the daily life of most urban or provincial newspaper readers. She is shown by the authors as wandering between visits, tours and wine exhibitions in a society where everyone follows those stilted – in fact quite cheesy – peculiar codes of the Bordeaux milieu.
Nothing new here for anyone already well informed about the region, habits and customs of wealthy members of the Bordeaux milieu, whose weekends are spent routinely at Arcachon basin. Of course, my dear.
