The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine Audiobook (Free)

It was the most expensive wine ever sold.

In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux-one of the cache of bottles unearthed inside a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson-went for $156,000 to a member from the Forbes family. The discoverer from the container was pop-band supervisor turned wine collector Hardy Rodenstock, who experienced a knack for acquiring extremely older and beautiful wines. But rumours about the bottle quickly arose..READING MORE approximately The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Secret of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine So why wouldn’t Rodenstock reveal the exact location where it had been present? Was it component of a smuggled Nazi hoard? Or do his reticence conceal an even darker secret?

It would take a lot more than 20 years for those questions to be answered and involve a gallery of intriguing players-among them Michael Broadbent, the bicycle-riding British auctioneer who speaks of wines as if they are females and staked his popularity within the record-setting sale; Serena Sutcliffe, Broadbent’s elegant archrival, whose palate is included in a hefty insurance policy; and Costs Koch, the luxurious Florida tycoon bent on exposing the reality about Rodenstock.

Pursuing the storyplot from Monticello to London to Zurich to Munich and beyond, Benjamin Wallace also offers a mesmerizing history of wine, filled with vivid accounts of subterranean European laboratories where old vintages are dated and of Jefferson’s colorful, wine-soaked days in France, where he literally drank up the culture.

Suspenseful, witty, and thrillingly unusual, The Billionaire’s Vinegar may be the vintage tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries. Additionally it is the debut of an exceedingly powerful new tone of voice in narrative nonfiction.