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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by: Benjamin Wallace List Price: £14.99 City Travel Guides Price: £9.74 You Save: £5.25 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 641.2223 EAN: 9780307338778 ISBN: 0307338770 Label: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc Manufacturer: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: July 25, 2008 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc Studio: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc Sales Rank: 8439 Related Items:
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 Rating: - When Money Isn't EnoughMr. Wallace has produced a great read that is interesting from a historical prospective while it harpoons the very wealthy whose pursuit of money is no longer satisfying. Nope, these folks have to pursue a type of collectable that they cannot have any provenance for, which experts in the field can only hope to guess at what the bottle contains. Wine that is a century younger than the bottle on the book cover might at best be "recognizable as wine", unless of course it has become an ingredient for salad dressing. The central charlatan in this tale is a master at exploiting the wishes of collectors and even the experts that should know better. Or perhaps that do know better and just let their own egos persuade them that in spite ... Read More: |
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