When Jerry, owner of the Napa Valley wine estate 'Chateau Meroux', dies, he unexpectedly leaves everything to his long-estranged and presumably neglected daughter Wendy, who is totally dependent on her roommate. in San Francisco, Jennifer. They visit and soon fall in love with Chris, the son and initially spy of rival neighbor and candidate-buyer Nathan, viz. Romario, the romantic assistant to French winemaker Francois, consumed by ambition. When Wendy decides to stay and execute him, despite terrifying debts, Chris genuinely helps them, but Nathan will stop at nothing.