![]() ![]() ![]() Jefferson, America’s first wine connoisseur, lived in Paris from 1784 to 1789 and began buying directly from the chateaux with France disrupted by revolution, this particular order apparently didn’t make it back to Monticello. The purported Jefferson bottle was consigned to Christie’s by German collector Hardy Rodenstock, who spun a hazy story of workers tearing down a house in Paris, breaking through a false wall and happening upon a cache of extremely old wines. Broadbent’s palate was considered the most experienced in the world, and he scoured the cellars of his aristocratic acquaintances to unearth rare vintages. Michael Broadbent was the suave founding director of Christie’s wine department, which had come to dominate the global market in old and rare wines to the tune of millions of dollars. ![]() Elaborate account of a delicious hoax played on the world’s wine experts and fabulously wealthy.Īccording to magazine writer Wallace, a chummy partnership between two well-connected Europeans largely created the interest in historic vintages that reached its apogee in 1985 with the $156,000 purchase by the Forbes family of a 1787 Château Lafite engraved with the initials “Th.J.”-i.e., Thomas Jefferson. ![]()
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