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The Billionaire's Vinegar - The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine (Paperback) Loot Price: R406
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The Billionaire's Vinegar - The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine (Paperback)

Benjamin Wallace

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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.

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.

General

Imprint: Three Rivers Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2009
First published: April 2009
Authors: Benjamin Wallace
Dimensions: 202 x 134 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-33878-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Antiques & collectables > General
Books > Health, Home & Family > Cookery / food & drink etc > Beverages > Alcoholic beverages > Wines
Books > Food & Drink > Beverages > Alcoholic beverages > Wines
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LSN: 0-307-33878-9
Barcode: 9780307338785

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