He had great appreciation for La Signora, and had been loyal to her and hers the whole of his life.įor more than sixty years he had taken part in the making of Giambelli wine.
And they would talk of the old days when her grandfather and his had worked the vines. Even now if Tereza Giambelli traveled from California back to the castello and vineyard, she would stop if she saw him. He had known La Signora since her girlhood, and had been taught to remove his cap whenever she passed by. Now at seventy-three, Bernardo lived alone, with most of his family a stone's throw away, at the edges of the grand Giambelli vineyard where he had worked since his youth. He had lived in the same little house in the gentle hills north of Venice since his marriage fifty-one years before. Like his bread and cheese, Bernardo was a simple man. The wine was a bit young, and Bernardo was not. On the night he was murdered, Bernardo Baptista dined simply on bread and cheese and a bottle of Merlot.
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