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发表于2024-11-07
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It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold.
In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—went for $156,000 to a member of the Forbes family. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band manager turned wine collector Hardy Rodenstock, who had a knack for finding extremely old and exquisite wines. But rumors about the bottle soon arose. Why wouldn’t Rodenstock reveal the exact location where it had been found? Was it part of a smuggled Nazi hoard? Or did his reticence conceal an even darker secret?
It would take more than two decades 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 women and staked his reputation on the record-setting sale; Serena Sutcliffe, Broadbent’s elegant archrival, whose palate is covered by a hefty insurance policy; and Bill Koch, the extravagant Florida tycoon bent on exposing the truth about Rodenstock.
Pursuing the story from Monticello to London to Zurich to Munich and beyond, Benjamin Wallace also offers a mesmerizing history of wine, complete 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 strange, The Billionaire’s Vinegar is the vintage tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries. It is also the debut of an exceptionally powerful new voice in narrative non-fiction.
本杰明·华莱士:《亿万富翁的醋味酒》(The Billionaire's Vinegar) 1985 年,在伦敦克里斯蒂拍卖行里正在进行一场热火朝天的拍卖竞决,对象就是一瓶1787年的法国拉菲酒庄产波尔多红酒,这瓶红酒属于在巴黎的一个地窖中发现的一批陈年葡萄酒,据传它们的拥有者...
评分本杰明·华莱士:《亿万富翁的醋味酒》(The Billionaire's Vinegar) 1985 年,在伦敦克里斯蒂拍卖行里正在进行一场热火朝天的拍卖竞决,对象就是一瓶1787年的法国拉菲酒庄产波尔多红酒,这瓶红酒属于在巴黎的一个地窖中发现的一批陈年葡萄酒,据传它们的拥有者...
评分本杰明·华莱士:《亿万富翁的醋味酒》(The Billionaire's Vinegar) 1985 年,在伦敦克里斯蒂拍卖行里正在进行一场热火朝天的拍卖竞决,对象就是一瓶1787年的法国拉菲酒庄产波尔多红酒,这瓶红酒属于在巴黎的一个地窖中发现的一批陈年葡萄酒,据传它们的拥有者...
评分本杰明·华莱士:《亿万富翁的醋味酒》(The Billionaire's Vinegar) 1985 年,在伦敦克里斯蒂拍卖行里正在进行一场热火朝天的拍卖竞决,对象就是一瓶1787年的法国拉菲酒庄产波尔多红酒,这瓶红酒属于在巴黎的一个地窖中发现的一批陈年葡萄酒,据传它们的拥有者...
评分本杰明·华莱士:《亿万富翁的醋味酒》(The Billionaire's Vinegar) 1985 年,在伦敦克里斯蒂拍卖行里正在进行一场热火朝天的拍卖竞决,对象就是一瓶1787年的法国拉菲酒庄产波尔多红酒,这瓶红酒属于在巴黎的一个地窖中发现的一批陈年葡萄酒,据传它们的拥有者...
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