The perfect vacation, driving through the French countryside, stopping at the little mere et pere farms and wineries along the way, seeing how the pastoral half lives…

This is the daydream of France that exists in the minds of many AMericans, a dream in perilous danger amidst the modernization of France and the shunning of traditionalists in favor of the “internationally acclaimed” Frankenberry wines championed and engineered by ridiculous 100-point scores, corpulent consultants, and the pursuit of the richest among the lowest common denominator of wine drinkers.

Robert Camuto moved to the south of France 12 years ago and examines the dichotomy of the current French wine world through the eyes of the hold outs, the romantics, and the defeated in his new book Corkscrewed.

In America, Wine Is Just a Piece of Meat
It’s not holding up much better in France
in this issue of the Seattle Weekly