{"id":96,"date":"2008-06-02T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T16:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2008-06-02T12:32:40","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T16:32:40","slug":"the-billionaires-vinegar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"The Billionaire&#8217;s Vinegar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I could not recommend this book highly enough for our group.  Whether you are a cork dork, passing oenophile, or just like drinking alcoholic grape juice, it reads like a mystery novel (but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true!).   This is a great mini-review:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Billionaire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Vinegar is the ultimate page-turner. Written with literary intelligence, it has a cast of characters like something out of Fawlty Towers meets The Departed. It takes you into a subculture so deep and delicious, you can almost taste the wine that turns so many seemingly rational people into madmen. It is superb nonfiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d BUZZ BISSINGER, author of Friday Night Lights<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For more on the author, the book, and the book tour, visit:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjaminwallace.net\/home.html\">http:\/\/www.benjaminwallace.net\/home.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117979979.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\">a related story<\/a>, Will Smith&#8217;s production company has optioned the book for a movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/01\/books\/review\/Miller-t.html\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the NYTimes review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could not recommend this book highly enough for our group. Whether you are a cork dork, passing oenophile, or just like drinking alcoholic grape juice, it reads like a mystery novel (but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true!). This is a great mini-review: The Billionaire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Vinegar is the ultimate page-turner. Written with literary intelligence, it has a cast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}