Billionaires Vinegar : The Mystery of the Worlds Most Expensive Bottle of Wine

English

ISBN: 0307338789

EAN: 9780307338785

Category: Cooking / Beverages / Wine & Spirits

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

Release Date: 06/08/2012

Synopsis: 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 Billionaires Vinegar tells the true story of a 1787 Chteau Lafite Bordeauxsupposedly owned by Thomas Jeffersonthat sold for 56,000 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 playersfrom 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.

Awards: Gourmand World Cookbook Awards – null 

Billionaires Vinegar : The Mystery of the Worlds Most Expensive Bottle of Wine

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.75 inches

Width: 5.19 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 9.38 oz

Pages: 336