The billionaire's vinegar the mystery of the world's most expensive bottle of wine
It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. In 1985, a 1787 bottle of Cha^teau Lafite Bordeaux--one of a cache unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson--sold at auction for $156,000. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band manager turned wine collecto...
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Table of Contents:
- Lot 337
- Incognito
- Tomb raider
- Monsieur Yquem
- Provenance
- "We did what you told us"
- Imaginary value
- The sweetness of death
- Salad dressing
- A pleasant stain, but not a great one
- The diviner of wines
- A built-in preference for the obvious
- Radioactive
- Letters from Hubsi
- "Awash in fakes"
- The last vertical
- Koch bottles
- Ghost particles
- Tailing Meinhard
- The finish.
