by Laura Dave
Georgia is at her final wedding gown fitting when she spots her fiancé walking down the street with a woman and child. Learning that her fiancé has been less than open with her, she runs back to her childhood home only to learn that her parents are splitting and selling their family vineyard to a c...
I won this book in a giveaway. Overall, not really my kind of book. I really enjoy wine and have liked other vineyard-based novels, but this one was not my glass of wine, so to speak. I was really intrigued by the opening quote, "You have to grow about eight hundred grapes to get just one bottle of ...
I did not know it was humanly possible to despise every damn character in a book that is not written by Gillian Flynn. Seriously. I want someone to put together a freaking pie chart to show most despised characters and see if one particular author manages to someone cause the reader to hate every si...
Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura DaveStarts out with Georgia Ford and she recalls her parents first meeting. The vineyard she grew up with and she runs home to, only to find things not normal.She had just learned something about her fiance that will break them up-there are to be married in a weeks time...
Did you know it takes eight hundred grapes to make one bottle of wine?That apparently is the best-kept secret of wine makers just like there were a lot of secrets the Ford family and other characters were not revealing.EIGHT HUNDRED GRAPES was an easy, enjoyable read. I liked the information about ...
"You have to grow, mold, squish about eight hundred grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn't an argument to finish the bottle, I don't know what is."You had me at WINE.Once in awhile, the perfect book at the perfect moment comes along and it's a beautiful thing. When I saw that Laura Dav...
What a great book! It really took me back to the wine country. The author did a great job with the descriptions of the scenery. She also did a great job with the characters. I felt I really got to know them and that I was sitting right there having Harvest dinner with them. The family dynamics were ...
"Eight Hundred Grapes" delivered something far from what I was expecting. I expected to find an average romance taking place at a winery. What I got was a story that was rich and full and complex but at the same time, so very simple and can be summed up in one sentence. It's a story about what one w...
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