Yazir Paredes

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watched an ABC News interview in which billionaire Bill Koch gets choked up thinking about his cellar—this from the unsentimental oil magnate who waged a brutal twenty-year legal battle against his own brothers. “Can any wine be worth $25,000 or $100,000 a bottle?” a reporter asks Koch. “A normal person says, ‘Hell no, it isn’t,’” Koch replies. “But for me, the art”—here Koch clears his throat—“craftsmanship”—his voice cracks on the final syllable and he blinks a few times to stop the tears that have started to come.
Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
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