The Billionaire's Vinegar

The Billionaire's Vinegar
Author: Benjamin Wallace
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2009-04-14
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0307338789

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The rivetingly strange story of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it. 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. 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. Suspenseful and thrillingly strange, this is the vintage tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries. “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

Business Week

Business Week
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 1050
Release: 2009
Genre: Business
ISBN:

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Poets & Writers

Poets & Writers
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1024
Release: 2008
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

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The Billionaire's Butler

The Billionaire's Butler
Author: Andrew Arthur Williams
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013-12-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781492805557

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Step out of your ordinary life and into the glamorous world of the superrich, where luxury, leisure, and excess can be found around every exquisitely decorated corner, and so too can betrayal, secrecy, and deception. From within the home of an incredibly wealthy, prominent family comes The Billionaire's Butler, an entirely entertaining story of mystery and romance among society's finest, as told by a butler who serves them. Inspired by actual events and paralleling an Internet blog of the same title, it delivers a fictional insider's view of the wacky world of the superrich and tells tale of their outlandish behavior and mind-boggling, extravagant needs. The story follows butler Andrew Arthur Williams as he reviews his life in the billionaire's world following a murder attempt made against the family he works for. He lightheartedly describes each of the characters under suspicion and outlines the astonishing events leading up to the crime, and after it. Andrew also delivers a lot of gossipy, chatty information about how the rich really live and, ultimately, reminds us that, despite their wealth and power, rich people are subject to the same human frailties as the rest of us.

The Vineyard at the End of the World

The Vineyard at the End of the World
Author: Ian Mount
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-12-20
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0393080196

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"The improbable triumph of the humble Malbec—the Seabiscuit of grapes." —Benjamin Wallace, author of The Billionaire's Vinegar For generations, Argentine wine was famously bad—­oxidized, unpalatable, and often mixed with a low-class French grape called Malbec. But then in 2001, a Cabernet Sauvignon / Malbec blend beat all contenders in a blind taste test featuring Napa and Bordeaux’s finest. Today, Argentina and its signature wine are on the tip of every smart traveler’s tongue. How did this happen? The Vineyard at the End of the World tells the fascinating, four-hundred-year history of how a wine mecca arose in the high Andean desert. Profiling the outlandish figures who fueled the Malbec revolution—including celebrity enologist Michel Rolland, acclaimed American winemaker Paul Hobbs, and the Mondavi-esque Catena family—Ian Mount describes in colorful detail the nefarious scams, brilliant business innovations, and backroom politics that put Malbec on the map.

The Economist

The Economist
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1168
Release: 2008
Genre: Commerce
ISBN:

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Wine & Spirits

Wine & Spirits
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 744
Release: 2009
Genre: Liquor
ISBN:

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The American Interest

The American Interest
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2008
Genre: United States
ISBN:

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Wine East

Wine East
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2008
Genre: Wine and wine making
ISBN:

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Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 912
Release: 2015
Genre: Dressmaking
ISBN:

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