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Corkbuzz Online | Bookclub: The Billionaire's Vinegar - Free!

We're ready for some summertime reading. Join our  Corkbuzz Book Club, open to all. Our book club will include an hour-long discussion on some key points of the story. Read all of the book, part of it, or none of it, but join in on the discussion! A list of topics for discussion will be sent with the zoom link the morning of our "Book Club". Next up is The Billionaire's Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace. 

About the book:

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 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.

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