In 1994, Ilja Gort bought a dilapidated wine château near Bordeaux and, within ten years, managed to turn it into a successful wine business.

Gort wrote about the early days of his Château La Tulipe (Chateau Gort & Gort since 2021) Surviving in France (Leven als Gort in Frankrijk) an exceptionally humorous book, of which more than 100,000 copies have now been sold.

Overleven als Gort in Frankrijk (Surviving Gort in France) is the sequel and sheds light on the other side of his success story. Because, according to Gort, it had become ‘a slightly too personal account’, he had this book withdrawn from sale after the first edition and prevented its further publication.

Now, 18 years on, as Gort puts it, ‘the wounds have healed and the blunders are a thing of the past’, and the book has been re-released. Enjoy this unfiltered account, featuring revelations from an Ilja Gort you’ve never seen before.

This 4th edition was published in 2023. The 1st edition was published in 2006.