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A review by ikuo1000
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by Benjamin Wallace
5.0
A very enjoyable read. The author writes with wit! Surprisingly, a real page-turner.
The book may have been more interesting to me than it might have been because I read it on the heals of Wine and War, so some wine-related names and places and terminology were recently familiar. Also, I was coincidentally in the middle of watching the HBO mini-series John Adams, which was giving me my first impressions of Thomas Jefferson in France.
A fascinating window into the world of wine; downright edifying. The book digs into the questionable history of a handful of bottles of rare wines, some of which were supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson. My only disappointment - and this may be a bit of a spoiler - is that there is no real closure. But I don't think that's the author's fault; he follows the story to 2007, the book was published in 2008, and some of the final scenes are probably still being played out.
The book may have been more interesting to me than it might have been because I read it on the heals of Wine and War, so some wine-related names and places and terminology were recently familiar. Also, I was coincidentally in the middle of watching the HBO mini-series John Adams, which was giving me my first impressions of Thomas Jefferson in France.
A fascinating window into the world of wine; downright edifying. The book digs into the questionable history of a handful of bottles of rare wines, some of which were supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson. My only disappointment - and this may be a bit of a spoiler - is that there is no real closure. But I don't think that's the author's fault; he follows the story to 2007, the book was published in 2008, and some of the final scenes are probably still being played out.