September Read Between the Vines Book Club
Join us for Read Between the Vines Book Club!
We are now offering guests a flight of wines to complement the book we are discussing each month (included in the registration fee)! And, as always, our full selection of wines and lunch menu will be available for purchase while we meet and after the session!
September Book Selection - The Billionaire's Vinegar
September Flights - Meritage Vintages
Please bring your own copy of the month’s book: see details of our monthly selection below!
The Billionaire's Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace
Synopsis
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 New York Times bestseller, updated with a new epilogue, that tells 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.
