Robert Weinguard enters the wine business under the tutelage of an oenologist, Barry Long, who devises far-fetched and amazingly effective schemes to make a fortune making counterfeit wine across four countries. In the process, there are three unsolved murders, perpetual mayhem, and countless close calls for getting caught in the act. The blunderbuss antics of Vincenzo Calabrese and his oversexed cohort, Madame, are on their scent, but end up eating their just desserts with a counterfeit Chateau d'Yquem '52 Sauternes.