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

Name: Billionaire's Vinegar The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
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ISBN: 9780307338778

ISBN-10: 0307338770

ISBN-13: 9780307338778

Edition: 2008

Authors: Benjamin Wallace

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It was the most expensivebottle of wine ever sold. In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie7;s of London, a 1787 bottle of Chateau Lafite Bordeaux-one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson-went for156,000 to a member of the Forbes family. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band manager turned wine collector Hardy Rodenstock, who had a knack for finding extremely old and exquisite wines. But rumors about the bottle soon arose. Why wouldn7;t Rodenstock reveal the exact location where it had been found? Was it part of a smuggled Nazi hoard? Or did his reticence conceal an even darker secret? It would take more than two decades…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/13/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Benjamin Wallace is editor-at-large at Philadelphia magazine.




Lot 337



Incognito



Tomb Raider



Monsieur Yquem



Provenance



"We Did What You Told Us"



Imaginary Value



The Sweetness of Death



Salad Dressing



A Pleasant Stain, but Not a Great One



The Diviner of Wines



A Built-in Preference for the Obvious



Radioactive



Letters from Hubsi



"Awash in Fakes"



The Last Vertical



Koch Bottles



Ghost Particles



Tailing Meinhard



The Finish


Notes


Acknowledgments