Rio Sol - A Store of Hope

A commendator from São Paulo, his wife, and son settle in the Northeastern Sertão. A renowned surgeon from Bahia, an Argentinian enologist and his daughter, also from Argentina, join them. Colonel Barreto, the maid Joelma, Pedro Lucas, Freddy, and other local characters interlock in the plot. And around them, in all directions, vines and vineyards as far as the eyes can see, at the most unlikely landscape: the tropical heat of Petrolina, Pernambuco.

Rio Sol is a story of contrasts. From controversial paulistas, seduced Argentinians and scrutinized secrets on the banks of river São Francisco. It speaks of forbidden love and prejudice, deception and failure, richness, and poverty, in the rich tapestry so typical to the southern latitudes, in its full diversity.

Of all that speaks Rio Sol. But it speaks more and above all of wine. A different, tropical wine, a miracle from the clay from the dry land water from the Velho Chico.

João Calazans leads us through the hermetic universe of viticulture, in a plot that comes from afar, ranging over thousands of kilometers and dozens of characters between Mendoza, in Argentina, and Petrolina, in Brazil. And, as he always does, the author puts us in the middle of a major sports event: the Wine Run, which, before the pandemic, brought together 1,500 sports and vineyard fans.

Rio Sol invites us to better understand Brazil and its neighbors. It presents us with the opportunity to taste other subtle flavors, from different fruits than those from which one extracts a rich beverage about which we always know very little, for there is always more to discover.

However, Rio Sol A Story of hope is, first and foremost, a book about adventure and entrepreneurship. A fundamentally human story about loves and passions, about people pursuing happiness and joy, which translate so well in wine, and which one always reaches through a long and tortuous road.

With Rio Sol, Calazans offers us not a book, but a toast to future and faith. A book to be tasted.

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