The Vineyards of Champagne by Juliet Blackwell

Rosalyn doesn't much care for champagne - or France, for that matter. In present day, Rosalyn Acosta travels to Champagne to select vintages for her Napa-based employer. But wine is not the only secret preserved in the cool, dark cellars. Forced to take shelter from the unrelenting onslaught of German shellfire above, the bravest and most defiant women venture out to pluck sweet grapes for the harvest. Beneath the cover of France's most exquisite vineyards, a city of women defy an army during World War I, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Lost Carousel of Provence.ĭeep within the labyrinth of caves that lies below the lush, rolling vineyards of the Champagne region, an underground city of women and children hums with life.