Steven Laine has written several wonderful wine novels that I’ve had the pleasure to read. His newest, Jupiter’s Blood, is my favorite.
Why the Name Jupiter’s Blood?
Wine Pundit tells us that Sangiovese, from the Latin «sanguis Jovis», means blood of Jove, or Jupiter.
When I google Jupiter’s Blood, I see a lot of Sangiovese winemakers who use it in their descriptions, and some even use it as the name of their wine. As an example, Tilley’s Wines has a Sangiovese called Blood of Jupiter. “The Blood of Jupiter celebrates all that is joyous about the Sangiovese grape.”
The Story at a High Level
Jupiter’s Blood is a real page-turner. So, I can’t tell you about it without ruining the reading experience for you. Instead, I’ll share what is on the back of the book:
About Steven Laine
Here’s Amazon’s About the Author writeup: “Steve is a French, Italian, Spanish and Canadian Wine Scholar, the only North American invited to join the Champagne Academy in France and is a member of International Thriller Writers. He has visited hundreds of wineries in the world’s major wine regions.
“During the pandemic, he worked the 2020 harvest to learn the winemaking process firsthand from the winemakers at Mission Hill Family Estate Winery in British Columbia. In 2021, he worked at Trius Winery in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario where he put his winemaking and forklift-driving skills to use once again as a cellarman.
“Kirkus Reviews called Steven Laine’s first wine thriller, Root Cause, “An entertaining, wine-soaked mystery.” The Washington Post wrote; “If Michael Pollan and Dan Brown sat down over a bottle of Barolo and brainstormed a novel based on the neuroses of the natural wine movement, they might have come up with something like ‘Root Cause.'”
