Wine hero Felix Hart is back battling Russian state in Black Odesa

As we still await who the next James Bond is going to be we at least have the wine industry’s Felix Hart to protect and amuse us in equal measures. Here his creator the ever mysterious Peter Stafford-Bow tells us what we can expect from what will be Hart’s fifth wine-based adventure when it is published on June 1. Here’s the pitch: “Black Odesa is a cautionary tale set in the world of luxury retail, social media ‘vinfluencers’ and wine regions forcibly occupied by the Russian state. Despite the dark subject matter, the story is uncompromisingly humorous and roars along faster than a teenage TikTok feed.” Here he reveals what else to expect.