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

Benjamin Wallace

It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold.

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It was mentioned as a book about the Thomas Jefferson wine fraud case, and that it was being adapted into a movie starring Matthew McConaughey.

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There's a book called The Billionaire's Vinegar about this, about the Jefferson wines. So interesting. They're making it into a movie with McConaughey of course.

— Episode: SYSK Selects: How Wine Fraud Works

Episode: SYSK Selects: How Wine Fraud Works

It was mentioned as a book about the Thomas Jefferson wine fraud case, and that it was being adapted into a movie starring Matthew McConaughey.

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There's a book called The Billionaire's Vinegar about this, about the Jefferson wines. So interesting. They're making it into a movie with McConaughey of course.

And it was about the famous Jefferson wines.

Episode: SYSK Selects: How Wine Fraud Works

It was mentioned as a book about the Jefferson wine fraud case, and that it's being made into a film with Matthew McConaughey.

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There's a book called The Billionaire's Vinegar about this, about the Jefferson wines. So interesting. They're making it into a movie with McConaughey of course.

Episode: SYSK Selects: How Wine Fraud Works

It was mentioned as a book about the Jefferson wine fraud case, specifically the Hardy Rodenstock aspect, and is being adapted into a movie with Matthew McConaughey.

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There's a book called The Billionaire's Vinegar about this, about the Jefferson wines. So interesting. They're making it into a movie with McConaughey of course.

The MeatEater Podcast

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The MeatEater Podcast

This book details the mystery surrounding the world's most expensive bottle of wine, a purported 1787 Bordeaux that may or may not have belonged to Thomas Jefferson. The podcast discussed aspects of the book's narrative, including the wine tasting process and the book's exploration of the wine's provenance.

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So I wrote a book about the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold, which was a supposedly a 1787 Bordeaux, red Bordeaux that had belonged to Thomas Jefferson and was discovered in a bricked up cella...

— Episode: Ep. 246: The Fenn Treasure

Episode: Ep. 246: The Fenn Treasure

This book details the mystery surrounding the world's most expensive bottle of wine, a purported 1787 Bordeaux that may or may not have belonged to Thomas Jefferson. The podcast discussed aspects of the book's narrative, including the wine tasting process and the book's exploration of the wine's provenance.

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So I wrote a book about the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold, which was a supposedly a 1787 Bordeaux, red Bordeaux that had belonged to Thomas Jefferson and was discovered in a bricked up cellar in Paris in the mid eighties.

And was the guy who found it, it was this German collector named Hardy Rodenstock on the up and up or was he a con man? And so the book follows that mystery.

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