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

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The rivetingly extraordinary 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, up to date with a new epilogue, that tells the real 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 really 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’re women to the obsessive wine collector who came upon the bottle.

Suspenseful and thrillingly extraordinary, that is the vintage tale of what might be the most elaborate con because the Hitler diaries.

“Part detective story, part wine history, that is one juicy tale, even for those with little interest in the fruit of the vine. . . . As delicious as a true vintage Lafite.” —BusinessWeek

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