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Publication date 2008 topics wine and wine making miscellanea publisher crown publishers. Big screen adaptation of benjamin wallaces nonfiction bestseller the billionaires vinegar. The mystery of the world s most expensive bottle of wine paperback published april 14th 2009 by broadway books paperback, 336 pages. Mar 05, 2014 the book then begins to focus on the sorry tale of the legal proceedings over the authenticity of the jefferson bottles, drawing into the discussion the thorny issue of counterfeit wine in general.
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