The mystery of the Malvasia Nera

Giovanni Morelli dons his best deerstalker to become our super sleuth on the trail of some interesting offerings to end the summer, and stumbles upon a record-breaking sale for an Australian bottle I don’t read crime novels, but a piece in the New York Times caught my eye recently, entitled ‘The Delicious World of Bruno, Chief of Police’ (July 24, 2017, bit.ly/Walker-Bruno). The article, penned by Eric Asimov, was about the English crime writer Martin Walker — an author of novels about Bruno Courrèges (Bruno, Chief of Police), set in the southwest of France. Asimov wrote: “… everything stops for…