The Billionaire's Vinegar: The. This item is unavailable.The Billionaire's Vinegar: The

The rivetingly strange story of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it. <p/>The New York Times 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. <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/>"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

BENJAMIN WALLACE, a New York Times bestselling author, has written for GQ, the Washington Post, Food & Wine, and Philadelphia, where he was the executive editor. He lives in Brooklyn. <p/>Visit his website at BenjaminWallace.net.