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| The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine | 
 enlarge | Author: Benjamin Wallace
Publisher: Crown
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 634
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0307338770
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.2223
EAN: 9780307338778
ASIN: 0307338770
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
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Fantastic story, entertaining and informative August 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an enthralling story of a world few people have the privilege of getting mixed up in. It begins with one extraordinarily expensive and rare bottle of wine and turns into an international mystery with all sorts of oddball characters. From worldwide authorities on ancient wines, to reclusive chateau owners, to hot-shot collectors and mega rich CEO's, this story weaves it's way through all of their lives. Everything surrounds the secretive life of a man with an uncanny ability to uncover extremely old and rare wines, specifically a cache which belonged to Thomas Jefferson. By the end you are left wondering who to believe, while having learned a great deal about the high stakes wine market.
Forget Trader Joes; your secret find is at the bookstore August 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A week ago, if a 1982 Mouton-Rothschild showed up at Trader Joes, I would not have cared. Then, Lafite just sounded like a French word. But, now I'm hell bent on tasting both. Only, my husband won't let me sell the house.
If you know nothing about wine, this is a modern-day forensics mystery, riveting with historical twists and turns and lots of high-class scheudenfraud. (Think Esquire Magazine or Sunday's New York Times. This is the article that you wish were a book.) For wine lovers, especially those enamored with Thomas Jefferson and his cellar legacies, this is a must. Gossipy, well-researched and consistently engaging, it will leave you wanting more. Seriously. Brilliantly arcane. A secret pleasure. Gift with a really good bottle of wine. Perhaps Yquem?
(And Mike, if you're reading this, the wine guy downtown owns a few bottles.)
THE bILLIONAIRE'S VINEGAR August 11, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This my order is correct, because you had sent me, the ordem wrong firts. You had send bilingual bible.
Regard,
Jorge Armando
Can it be proven its NOT a fake? July 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great fun read into the world of high end collecting. Big egos and big money mixed with inconclusive evidence. Quite a cocktail. Potentially dull as old nails, but the extensive research and excellent storytelling of the author delivers this eminently readable tale. How collecting has evolved from a small select group of true wine lovers into a frenetic state of egos, experts, finger-pointing and suspicions.
Broadbent and Rodenstock are the principal players in bidding up bottles of venerable yet questionable old wines; but this book features many others. From foolish status-seekers merely drinking money to the true connoisseurs, all have the collector gene and cannot stop. Several classic stories, asides and anecdotes makes for LOL reading. Some may say it is published too early yet I think it points you to where you can draw your own conclusions.
Shame on the "experts" July 24, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
An excellent book which traces the history of the very rare wine market and explains how its excesses led to the Rodenstock-Koch-Broadbent fiasco. The author deftly explores both the business issues and the psychology of the rare wine world, and shows little mercy for the "experts" who were taken in by Rodenstock, either because of cupidity or stupidity.
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