Korting French Spirits A House, a Village, and a Love Affair in Burgundy – Jeffrey Greene

When Jeffrey Greene, a prizewinning American poet, and Mary, his wife-to-be, a molecular biologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, discover a moss-covered stone presbytery in a lovely village in the Puisaye region of Burgundy, they know they have to live there. With an unabashed joie de vivre, they begin the arduous process of procuring their slice of paradise amid the wild beauty of the French countryside — a place of gentle farmlands and dense forests, of rivers and lakes, of stunning fields bursting…