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> <p/>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 $156000 at auction and of the eccentrics whose lives intersected with it. <p/>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. <p/>Suspenseful and thrillingly strange this is the vintage tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries. <p/><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>