The Billionaire's Vinegar

<b>The rivetingly strange story of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it.</b><br><br>The <i>New York Times </i>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>Suspenseful and thrillingly strange, this is the vintage tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries. <br><br><b>“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</b>