The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine For Wine Lovers-Great! - Douglas P. Murphy - Charlottesville
I thought this book was vastly entertaining and interesting particularly since I have an interest in wine and live in Jefferson’s back yard-Charlottesville, Va. The first part of the book has a lot of background on wine: the old chateaux in Bordeau, the Burgundy region, etc. as well as on Jefferson’s meanderings in the wine world. One can learn a lot about older, classic vintages such as pre phylloxera, about wine auctions through Sotheby’s and Christie’s. A strange sub culture of elite wine tasters emerges who regularly get to sample very expensive old wines through marathon tastings in remarkable places. However, the book focuses on the burgeoning world of the wine cheats who often sell completely fraudulent wines for exorbitant prices. This aspect of the culture was very disappointing and at least for me not quite as interesting. Overall, though, if any of the above areas interest you, you will definitely enjoy this book.
: “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 6,000 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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