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- Bordeaux-based enologist (wine expert) Benjamin Lebel interrupts work on his next original wine publication, assisted by haughty relative and eager Virgile, to identify a Grand Cru château from Pomerol for police detective Barbaroux. It's used as signature in a ritual, filling one glass more each time, at a serial killer's successive murder scenes and a wartime tomb. Although told by the rude inspector to butt out, Lebel, who also receives anonymous, old pictures of the victims, works out they all had something to do with World War II, which the château vintage dates from too, and possibly with Vichy collaboration.
- Benjamin Lebel is startled to find his daughter Margaux back from New York, actually for her boyfriend, prestigious Château Belfleur's communications director Antoine Rinetti, whose proposal she announces to accept to spite daddy. For her sake, assistant Silvère is eager to help investigate the new ownership and wine-maker Séverin. Unlike Benjamin, his lover-colleague France Pelletier accepts to help the Russian mob-presumed owner Valéry Tchernakov research acquisition options. Shortly after, Rinaldi is fatally wounded by sports car sabotage, Margaux gets off lightly wounded. While Banjamin digs in the château's past and its present legacy, more criminal violence is lurking.
- Oenologue Benjamin Lebel, eagerly accompanied by his slick assistant Silvère, travels to the Cognac region to counsel a prospective Japanese buyer Hiroshi Tanaka about the possible take-over of legendary brandy family firm Aludel. He's shown the door by partner-siblings Pierre-François and Garance, but their apparently gay brother Baptiste, who has an eye on Silvère, shows Benjamin around. That night, Baptiste drowns in what may be an accident. Benjamin finds that his English old Paris flame 'Soho Rose' Shirley is involved, as well as her doted son Jonas and popular barman Gautier, as Baptiste was their bar's silent main investor, but also had more intimate relations. Only another murder convinces Barbaroux that Lebel stumbled upon another vipers nest, but it's not the last fatality.
- Benjamin was to prepare a Californian conference as key note speaker with his lover France, but she ends up writing the speech with his eager assistant Silvère as Lebel prefers more wine estate snooping. Denis and Jeanne Laville's wine-maker was murdered in their Pessac winery. The victim was co-heir to a tiny, yet potentially priceless breakaway top quality estate. Benjamin becomes a target as well as prime suspect while he and commissioner Barbaroux conduct parallel investigations for the families, staff and other players involved in shady games over potential takeovers and revenge, spiced with romantic liaisons and illegitimacy. Next murder victim is genealogist Francis Morin.
- 2011– 1h 28mTV-147.2 (24)TV EpisodeBenjamin feels tricked by his Parisian editor into presiding over a charity wine cellar sale by Léo Delhomm, an actor preparing his comeback after a scandal concerning the death on set of his wife turned the media against him. It's held on his Loire château, where Leo's local, devoted assistant Fred, son of a winegrower, hopes to produce a fine vintage, which Lebel considers doable but a demanding full-time vocation. Reporter Marco Ferri, Benjamin's acquaintance, lurks about, flirting with his girlfriend France Pelletier. Then a murderer strikes.
- Benjamin hesitates to accept the request of recent Champagne wine estate widow Alice de Vonnelle to assemble a special vintage in honor of son Arthur, who died in an equestrian accident six months before his father's death in bed. Lebel realizes the old lady is wine-ignorant, unlike Arthur's widow Marianne, whom she hates but has to share the inheritance with, and who has the good sense to stick to experienced wine-maker François Norbert. Benjamin drops by from time to time, leaving Silvère on site, courted by the then merry widows, to keep digging for family dirt. Crucial and/or suspect are uncle Edouard d'Ortef, who decides to sell his estate shares but is killed in afire, Alice's cousin and virtual stepbrother, if not more, army officer Aymeric Montet, her gym coach and lover and a Swiss artist.
- 2011– 1h 31mTV-147.3 (25)TV EpisodeBenjamin is legal expert for the insurance when the Armagnac (exclusive brandy) winery of baron de Castayrac explodes, his wine-maker Paco Vasquez dies in the fire. Silvére volunteers unasked to assist and gets stuck with all the dirty chores, hence is furious to be kept in the dark when Lebel conducts a murder investigation. The baron's at first sight scary son Olivier bonds with Silvère, estranged son Alban bickers over the vintage car, an heirloom from their mother since whose death the family fell apart. Daughter Lucie married the haughty growers association president Philippe Nadaillac, who fells victim to a car bombing. Having learned the brothers don't share the baronial blood, Lebel waves the lazy police commandant Lazare's simplistic theories and comes up with elaborate plots, then sets a dangerous trap.
- Lors d'une séance de dédicaces dans une librairie du Sauternais, Benjamin Lebel, nologue et auteur de guides sur les vins, est abordé par un couple de sexagénaires. Ceux-ci lui demandent de venir expertiser leur cave, qui abrite une quarantaine de bouteilles d'un Sauternes très réputé, véritable rareté pour les amateurs. Benjamin promet de passer les voir, et charge Silvère, son assistant, d'aller faire l'inventaire de ce trésor dès que possible. Quelques heures plus tard, le couple est sauvagement assassiné, et les précieuses bouteilles ont disparu. Pour la gendarmerie, il ne fait aucun doute que le vol du vin est le principal mobile du meurtre. Benjamin mène l'enquête.
- Benjamin Lebel is hired by the son of a wealthy estate owner, Jean Guillame Ubayre's son, William, to conduct an assessment of his family's vineyards in Saint-Vivant (Bourgogne?). He takes Mathilde along on this tour, and together, they encounter a murder, a suicide attempt, a series of thefts and several blackmail schemes. As usual, the local police inspector is a clueless buffoon, intent on insulting Lebel and Mathilde -- but ultimately, he learns to cooperate and rescue the heroic Lebel.
- Benjamin Lebel is invited by the prestigious Burgundy 'Tastevin' society host Roger Vincenot in the jury of their annual tasting. Major wine merchant Bernard Aristide, expected to be on business trip, arrives and rudely demands the seat of honor, only to die from the cup which does passes by Benjamin. Although unwelcome to the police, he insists to start his own investigation and orders a shaky Silvère to come assist him, a task he only takes to heart after meeting Vincenot's oenology-promising waitress Aurélie, who becomes the young gentleman's hot-tempered lover. Benjamin mistrust the offer of collaboration from the local newspaper editor, a historian. While he digs into the Aristide family and estates history, which prove a complex web of trickery, the same poison kills the neighboring Montclart brothers, brutes and parties to dirty tricks on both ends, but only darker family secrets explain another lurking crime.
- 2011– 1h 32mTV-146.7 (25)TV EpisodeBenjamin is contacted by the Strassburg police as possibly the last person to have talked, by phone, to murdered reporter Odile, who may have sent him her last article draft. She was working on the bitter, even crazy rivalry between old, dying traditional wine estate owner Vincent Kreutzler and Swiss investment banker Edgar Loewen, who buys many Alsation estates. Silvère hesitates to tell Lebel he successfully postulated at an Argentinian estate. Team lebel and the suspiciously friendly gendarmes (national police) disagree whether to dig deeper in family pasts, but the murderer strikes again, using inventive methods, and turns on Benjamin.
- Benjamin travels with France to the Jura region where she is acting as an advisor on the acquisition of a vineyard. The previous owner of the vineyard, known for its vin jaune, apparently committed suicide two weeks prior to the events in this episode. Or was it murder?
- Benjamin Lebel and his assistant Mathilde go to Cahors to evaluate the wine production of the estate of Mr. Edouard Perolles.When they begin the wine tasting, they have a bad surprise: the wine is very foul.In the wine tank No 13 they find a corpse.The man has been severely hit and put in the wine tank.Nodody knows his identity.The police captain Medraoui makes a lot of questions to Mr. Perolles (about the guests who have come to the estate or about the workers of the estate).On his side Benjamin Lebel begins his own investigation.
- Swiss investment banker insists that Lebel must assess a Chateauneuf-du-Pâpe estate, once reputed, slipping since the later owner Castelnaut's daughters fired wine-maker Francis Ollier, who now runs a friend-partner's smaller estate. Benjamin rightly suspects the supposed reason given by the only rich heiress-sister, Kate Weller, who returns from abroad, is a front, and starts digging in the murky family and staff history even before vineyard sabotage and murder strike.
- 2011– 1h 32mTV-147.4 (22)TV EpisodeBenjamin Lebel is flattered that his youth-days poetry about the Cathar castles are to be published by a small firm in the Languedoc department Aude, so the drives there with assistant Silvère, who was promised a castles tout. They stay with Lebel's old friend, oenologist and former fellow 1960s revolutionary Janny Verniaud, who now leads a cooperative for biological wine-growing, but her young partners -especially hothead Arthur Gassard- are tired of her stickler obstacles to profitable production. The Montepelleir professor who piloted the Lebel poems projects, Janny's former colleague, has been killed in a car crash, which Benjamin finds suspicious even before his home is found ransacked, so he digs in the professor's other projects too.
- Benjamin is hired to advise in the fate of a coastal wine estate after the owner's death, which the widow Angèle Marcarol wants to donate to a Catholic monastery, but the notary Coutil dies before he can execute the deed from slow poison administered over time and the monks won't be linked to such bloody scandal. Benjamin finds the widow and her confident estate manager are targeted since long. Her estranged daughter is the latest conquest of ambitious local reality show star hunk Thibault Berger, who hopes to play the lead I a biopic on Benjamin, but gets shot in a confusing incident at the estate. paramilitary police captain Paul Lescaut finds his master in Benjamin.
- Benjamin leaves Silvère do all his tasting while he's invited to write an article and give wine expert advice at doc René Grimaud's rehab clinic's program from alcohol addicts. Dealing with gendarmes commandant Caubère, a police acquaintance recently transferred to this most prestigious Bordeaux region, Benjamin is first to find the long-missing MD, while one of his patients is found murdered. His lover France, whose buddy Macha implored help, joins his undercover investigation.
- Benjamin Lebel and his assistant Sylvère Dugain go to Angoulême because Benjamin has been invited to the opening of a new cellar by Arthur Salacrou.Benjamin is quite angry because Arthur Salacrou wants to present him as his new partner for new vodka prepared with grapes of the Angoulême region.Now the night of the opening has come, Benjamin and Arthur are in the cellar and suddenly Arthur Salacrou is shot down by a arrow shot by an underwater rifle.
- Benjamin Lebel is knocked unconscious and is in a coma for a couple of days. He wakes but has partial amnesia. Against the advice of his doctors and family/friends he decides to take matters into his own hands in order to find his notebook which was stolen at the time of his attack
- 2011– 1h 29mTV-147.4 (16)TV EpisodeBenjamin and Mathilde arrive in Beaujolais to advise on the possible sale of vineyards between bickering parties. They rich main estate owner is murdered. Benjamin and the police must look into both his heirs and passed-over gay playmate with AIDS Eric Beaujeu as well as a bunch of less wealthy, scheming locals, one if which gets 'accidentally' killed in a nocturnal boar elimination campaign in non-hunting season. Benjamin unravels a web of infidelity and manipulation, while his semi-rival Edgard Loewen is brought in after he's ousted form the consultation job, only intriguing him further.
- Benjamin has due reserves when he accept to attend the funeral in Nantes of a wine grower who died from a shark attack 'because' he followed Lebel's advice to try his ambitions of originality in South Africa. Heiress daughter Gloria Guillemin surprises Benjamin by announcing unilaterally he's to head the 'posthumous' innovation project, outranking the present estate manager, Yann Coussou, who died from a gun shot the police stubbornly considers a plausible suicide. Lebel still is the prime suspect in case of murder, having arrived just then while ignoring Yann's intentions, so he resolves to clear the case himself, digging into family and estate backgrounds.