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It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787bottle of Ch?teau Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottlesunearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned byThomas Jefferson—went for $156,000 to a member of the Forbesfamily. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band manager turnedwine collector Hardy Rodenstock, who had a knack for findingextremely old and exquisite wines. But rumors about the bottle soonarose. Why wouldn’t Rodenstock reveal the exact location where ithad been found? Was it part of a smuggled Nazi hoard? Or did hisreticence conceal an even darker secret? It would take more than two decades for those questions to beanswered and involve a gallery of intriguing players—among themMichael Broadbent, the bicycle-riding British auctioneer who speaksof wines as if they are women and staked his reputation on therecord-setting sale; Serena Sutcliffe, Broadbent’s elegantarchrival, whose palate is c
