The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine

Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780307338785
Edition: Reprint
ISBN: 0307338789
Item Dimensions:7895245675
Label: Three Rivers Press
Languages:EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 323
Publication Date: April 14, 2009
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Studio: Three Rivers Press

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“Part detective story, part wine history, this is one juicy tale, even for those with no interest in the fruit of the vine. . . . As delicious as a true vintage Lafite.” —BusinessWeek

The Billionaire’s Vinegar tells the true story of a 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux—supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—that sold for $156,000 at auction and of the eccentrics whose lives intersected with it. Was it truly entombed in a Paris cellar for two hundred years? Or did it come from a secret Nazi bunker? Or from the moldy basement of a devilishly brilliant con artist? As Benjamin Wallace unravels the mystery, we meet a gallery of intriguing players—from the bicycle-riding British auctioneer who speaks of wines as if they are women to the obsessive wine collector who discovered the bottle. Suspenseful and thrillingly strange, this is the vintage tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries. Updated for paperback with a new epilogue.

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