"The true story of a plot to poison the world's greatest wine". The subtitle of "Shadows in the Vineyard" makes Maxi-millian Potter's first book sound like a real page-turner. Indeed, much of the detail that the author, an American journalist, has unearthed about an extortion attempt made in 2010 against Domaine de la Roma-nee-Conti (DRC), the French estate that makes the world's most expensive wine, is ripe for a Hollywood film. A mysterious criminal digs a hidden space next to vineyards so beloved that no one has ever seen the need to protect them. For over a year he spends his days listening to Mozart in his lair, and his nights meticulously mapping every vine on the estate, some of whose Pinot Noir sells for $10,000 a bottle. With help from his son, he drills holes into the roots of hundreds of vines, and then kills two of them with a herbicide. He writes to Aubert de Villaine, the head of drc, demanding €1m ($1.4m) in exchange for keeping the rest of the world's most valuable vineyard alive. In collaboration with a crack team of investigators, drc's executives leave a bag full of fake euro notes and electronic tracking devices at the requested drop-off point. In the dead of night, someone arrives to pick it up...
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机译：“毒死世界上最伟大的葡萄酒的真实故事”。 “葡萄园的影子”的副标题使马克西米利安·波特的第一本书听起来像是真正的翻页者。确实，作者（一位美国记者）发掘了2010年针对勒莫酒庄（DRC）的勒索企图的许多细节，该酒庄是世界上最昂贵的葡萄酒生产地，好莱坞电影。一位神秘的罪犯在葡萄园旁边挖出了一个隐藏的地方，以至于没人喜欢保护他们的葡萄园。一年多的时间里，他整天都在他的巢穴里听着莫扎特的歌，他的夜晚精心绘制了庄园内的所有葡萄藤，其中一些黑皮诺的售价为每瓶10,000美元。在儿子的帮助下，他在数百个葡萄藤的根部打了个洞，然后用除草剂杀死了其中两个。他写信给Drc负责人Aubert de Villaine，要求赔偿100万欧元（合140万美元），以换取世界上最有价值的其余葡萄园的生命。与一支精明的调查员团队合作，drc的高管在请求的下车地点放了一个装满假欧元纸币和电子跟踪设备的袋子。在漆黑的夜晚，有人来接它。
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