Unveiling the Mystery Behind the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine: The Billionaire's Vinegar

suthersat34: I have not read the book yet. However, it arrived promptly, well packed and in good condition. It was exactly as described. I would happily recommend the seller

United Kingdom on May 12, 2023

warwick reynolds: Excellent book. Well written and a great source of knowledge in addition to the story itself. Any wine buff will like this book but it will also appeal to the non wine aficionado who just wants a good read.

Australia on Oct 14, 2021

Jacqueline younes: Entrega muy rapida
Todo perfecto
Gracias

Spain on Mar 27, 2021

Torontonian: If you still have any doubts about wine critics being mostly buffoons, you won't after having read this book. How did you like that 1811 Chateau d'Yquem, Mr. Parker? Stuff your ratings where Sun don't shine!

Canada on Oct 20, 2020

Robert P Gelms: Wine Whines
By Bob Gelms

The Billionaire’s Vinegar

How many out there like to drink wine? I thought so, me too. Well this book is an entertaining tome about mega rich people behaving over the top about super rare wines that, in the grand scheme of things, shouldn’t really be all that important. It’s also about super rich people getting ripped off for a mega amount of money and that’s always very entertaining.

The story in The Billionaire’s Vinegar dizzyingly revolves around a cache of Bordeaux wine from a superb Chateau circa 1788. That in itself would make this story drink splendidly. The real kicker in all this, and the aspect that had everyone connected to it panting like a thirsty man just in from the desert willing to drink just about anything, is that these bottles were owned by Thomas Jefferson. Wait for it – he also initialed all the bottles.

The man who found the Jefferson bottles, Hardy Rodenstock, is a rather mysterious German wine dealer with a suspicious past and a knack for discovering tremendously rare bottles of some of the world’s best wines. At the time of the Jefferson discovery, an American family with a love for all...

United States on Oct 19, 2015

Monika Goerigk - Schönleber: Super toll geschrieben und sehr mitreißend, dass es schwer fiel das Buch zur Seite zu legen.
Ich kann dieses Buch jedem Weinliebhaber wärmstens empfehlen, auch in deutscher Sprache.
Zum Wohl!

Germany on Nov 29, 2013

Owl: OK: so imagine that off Greece some amphorae are discovered in a 2,000 year old wreck. They are inscribed "Falernian" together with initials that could be those of the poet Horace. The discoverer is reticent about which divers made the find and where the wreck was located. He puts them up for auction at a most respectable British house. How much would you pay for one of these if you had apparently had more money than Croesus? Would you drink the stuff? Display it? How could you or anyone now living tell whether this liquid still tasted as the legendary Falernian should? What if---just what if---more amphorae surfaced? Lots more. How could you or even the experts assure this was the real deal or if it was faked?

"The Billionaire's Vinegar" tells of the ingenious "discoverer" (Hardy Rodenstock)of a cache of fine label wines from the time of Thomas Jefferson, said to have been uncovered when a wall of an old cellar in Paris is breached. The bottles are labeled not only with the noble vintners (Margaux, Lafite Yquem) but also with the initials Th.J. engraved on the bottles.

The story wraps itself around a legendary auctioneer (bicycle-riding Michael Broadbent of...

United States on Feb 19, 2013

G. Elston: This book promises so much and delivers almost all of it. The author is a great writer, and his prose pulls the reader into a totally immerse experience. Unfortunately after being totally absorbed for 90% of the book, the reader is left with an ending but no conclusion. It almost feels as if the author just gave up on the book, wrote a few pages as a concluding chapter, left it there and went off for tea. I found it incredibly frustrating that the book was not tied up at the end and I found myself checking to see if I had missed something, or if the Kindle had somehow not downloaded the whole book. The culture of ultra-rich wine connoisseurs and their amazing collections is covered extremely well, the main characters are developed to a point where you almost feel you know them personally. Oenophiles will love this book, but even those with a casual interest in wine will find it absorbing. I do though eventually look forward to this book being "completed" as the ending lets the book down to such a degree that it goes from 5 stars to three.

United States on Apr 27, 2011