Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

by Bianca Bosker

The most expensive bottle of wine in history was sold in 2010 for $304,375. You could have bought a house, two full college tuitions, or five Porsche SUVs with what was spent on that 1947 Château Cheval Blanc, which, despite being called “pure perfection,” will eventually be destroyed and converted into extremely expensive urine.