The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by Benjamin Wallace Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
Book Review: Forget Trader Joes; your secret find is at the bookstore
Summary: 4 Stars
A week ago, if a 1982 Mouton-Rothschild showed up at Trader Joes, I would not have cared. Then, Lafite just sounded like a French word. But, now I'm hell bent on tasting both. Only, my husband won't let me sell the house.
If you know nothing about wine, this is a modern-day forensics mystery, riveting with historical twists and turns and lots of high-class scheudenfraud. (Think Esquire Magazine or Sunday's New York Times. This is the article that you wish were a book.) For wine lovers, especially those enamored with Thomas Jefferson and his cellar legacies, this is a must. Gossipy, well-researched and consistently engaging, it will leave you wanting more. Seriously. Brilliantly arcane. A secret pleasure. Gift with a really good bottle of wine. Perhaps Yquem?
(And Mike, if you're reading this, the wine guy downtown owns a few bottles.)
Book Review: THE bILLIONAIRE'S VINEGAR
Summary: 4 Stars
This my order is correct, because you had sent me, the ordem wrong firts. You had send bilingual bible.
Regard,
Jorge Armando
Book Review: Can it be proven its NOT a fake?
Summary: 4 Stars
Great fun read into the world of high end collecting. Big egos and big money mixed with inconclusive evidence. Quite a cocktail. Potentially dull as old nails, but the extensive research and excellent storytelling of the author delivers this eminently readable tale. How collecting has evolved from a small select group of true wine lovers into a frenetic state of egos, experts, finger-pointing and suspicions.
Broadbent and Rodenstock are the principal players in bidding up bottles of venerable yet questionable old wines; but this book features many others. From foolish status-seekers merely drinking money to the true connoisseurs, all have the collector gene and cannot stop. Several classic stories, asides and anecdotes makes for LOL reading. Some may say it is published too early yet I think it points you to where you can draw your own conclusions.
Book Review: Shame on the "experts"
Summary: 4 Stars
An excellent book which traces the history of the very rare wine market and explains how its excesses led to the Rodenstock-Koch-Broadbent fiasco. The author deftly explores both the business issues and the psychology of the rare wine world, and shows little mercy for the "experts" who were taken in by Rodenstock, either because of cupidity or stupidity.Book Review: a great tipple
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a gripping read. Hard some times to think its non fiction given the complexity and deviousness of the players