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

The Mystery Of The World's Most Expensive Bottle Of Wine

Benjamin Wallace

May 13, 2008 · Hardcover · Crown · 336 pp

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First edition · ISBN 9780307338778 · English · US · Dewey 641.2223 · LC TP548 .W2945 2008

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"It would take more than two decades for those questions to be answered and involve a gallery of intriguing players - among them Michael Broadbent, the bicycle-riding British auctioneer who speaks of wines as if they are women and staked his reputation on the record-setting sale; Serena Sutcliffe, Broadbent's elegant archrival, whose palate is covered by a hefty insurance policy; and Bill Koch, the extravagant Florida tycoon bent on exposing the truth about Rodenstock. Pursuing the story from Monticello to London to Zurich to Munich and beyond, Benjamin Wallace also offers a history of wine, complete with vivid accounts of subterranean European laboratories where old vintages are dated and of Jefferson's colorful, wine-soaked days in France, where he literally drank up the culture."--BOOK JACKET.