The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (565 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001FVJIQU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 105 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. The rivetingly strange story of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it.The New York Times bestseller, updated with a new epilogue, that 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. As delicious as a true vintage Lafite.” —BusinessWeek. 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
The subsequent brouhaha over the cache's authenticity takes wine journalist Wallace on a piquant journey into the mirage-like world of rare wines. Investigating wines so old and rare they could taste like anything, he playfully questions the very foundations of connoisseurship. The argument over the Jefferson bottles and other rarities aged for decades, flummoxed a wine establishment desperate to keep the cork in a controversy that might deflate the market for antique vintages. From Publishers Weekly The titular bottle, from a cache of allegedly fine, allegedly French wine, allegedly owned by Thomas Jefferson in the 1780s, set a record price when auctioned in 1985. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a d
"Whining" according to Robert P Gelms. Wine WhinesBy Bob GelmsThe Billionaire’s Vinegar How many out there like to drink wine? I thought so, me too. Well this book is an entertaining tome about mega rich people behaving over the top about super rare wines that, in the grand scheme of things, shouldn’t really be all that important. It&rsquo. "In May 19"In May 1945, when allied forces liberated Hitler's mountaintop redoubt in Bavaria, they found half a million bottles of wine." Mary Whipple Could the bottle of Lafite, with the initials of Thomas Jefferson and dated 1787, awaiting auction at Christie's in London in 1987, possibly have been part of a newly discovered Nazi hoard? As Michael Broadbent, the head of the wine department of Christie's, prepared to auction off this bottle, the oldest authent. 5, when allied forces liberated Hitler's mountaintop redoubt in Bavaria, they found half a million bottles of wine." Could the bottle of Lafite, with the initials of Thomas Jefferson and dated 1787, awaiting auction at Christie's in London in 1987, possibly have been part of a newly discovered Nazi hoard? As Michael Broadbent, the head of the wine department of Christie's, prepared to auction off this bottle, the oldest authent. An awfully good portrait As a non-drinker who couldn't tell a Haute-Brion from Martini and Rossi, I still found myself intrigued by the premise here and so I thought it would be a good, entertaining read. And indeed it is. A crazy-quilt of eccentrics people the world of collectable, rare wine. From the way more money than sense types who