Summary The Vintners Letters

Read The Vintners Letters ↠ E-book, or Kindle E-pub D be a many faceted and often stormy romance confronted by religious differences and tested by life's vicissitudesBut their greatest challenge lay in Maurice's other consuming passion – making fine wines He could not tear himself away from his beloved Hunter Valley vine The pace of the book is very slow However on reflection the author might have intended it that way in order to convey the tyranny of time that Maurice and Marcia waited before they married A good tale about the early vintners of the Hunter Valley and how the wines were initially viewed which is certainly not the case today

Read The Vintners Letters ↠ E-book, or Kindle E-pub Yard Marcia every inch a city girl was appalled by the primitive living conditions of the struggling vigneronThe Vintner's Letters is based on their true story as recounted by Simone Bryce their daughter and on the letters written by Maurice to Marcia during their courtsh Loved reading this book Based on love letters between Maurice O Shea and his Love Marcia Fuller Gives an insight I to the early days of Hunter Valley Wines particularly Mt PleasantI think a trip up to Mt Pleasant sometime has to be planned

Peter McAra ↠ 9 Read

Read The Vintners Letters ↠ E-book, or Kindle E-pub Son of an Irish father and a French mother Maurice George O'Shea was a famous Australian winemaker Educated in France he was also a man of passion a romantic In the cultured and elegant Miss Marcia Fuller an accomplished pianist he found his enduring sweetheartTheirs woul Maurice O Shea the son of a French mother and Irish father comes back to Australia after spending several years in France learning about wine The plan is to establish a winery in the Hunter Valley making top class wines He buys a property at Pokolbin Then when in Sydney he meets the young Marcia Fuller Now Maurice has two passions winemaking and Marcia But will he be able to combine the two and convince Marcia to live in the country when she is so city oriented And what about the religious differences which threaten to derail the romance before it gets too far Can they be resolved There is also the contused presence of Bill and his mother longstanding friends of the Fuller family who have their own plan for Marcia and they certainly do not include Maurice Although this is fiction it is based on real people and events and includes copies of the letters Maurice wrote to Marcia The book also includes photos of the real Maurice and MarciaThis is a lyrical story Not a page turner but interesting enough to keep reading The settings of Sydney and Hunter Valley and the harshness of life on the land at times were well drawn Since I live in the area I loved the holiday jaunt Maurice Marcia and Mrs Fuller took to Huskisson and the descriptions of the beaches and Jervis Bay They were spot on Only one point struck me oddly He refers to Mooney Creek Unless it has had a change of name since the 1920s it is Moona Moona CreekI found this a uietly absorbing story that reveals a lot of historical information and also learned a lot about winemaking I enjoyed this look back into history and early winemaking in Australia Again interesting to see how attitudes fashions and ideas have changed over the years A good book for those who like a gentler though at times sad read

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• The Vintners Letters
• Peter McAra
• English
• 23 March 2020
• 9781741165739