Check out Patrick Radden Keefe's "The Jefferson Bottles" over at The New Yorker; the article is from September of last year, but is still damn interesting. Turns out the world of wine collecting has been recently rocked with forgery scandal, in this instance revolving around the "most expensive bottle of wine ever sold at auction."
The bottle came from a collection of wine that had reportedly been discovered behind a bricked-up cellar wall in an old building in Paris. The wines bore the names of top vineyard... and those initials, "Th.J." According to the catalogue, evidence suggested that the wine had belonged to Thomas Jefferson, and that the bottle at auction could "rightly be considered one of the world's greatest rarities."
Strangely enough, it looks like there are two film projects being developed based on this story; one from this article, and another based on an as-yet unpublished book. As intriguing as I found this story to be, I have a hard time imagining it working as a film. Then again, I certainly enjoy The Red Violin, so go ahead and prove me wrong, filmmakers.
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