Episode 159: American Presidents, Wine, Booze, and Forgery
SOMM TV wine & food
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The Wines That Presidents Drink
The process of how to get a wine into the White House on one of these menus you're going to be surprised. It's all political. The most expensive bottle ever ever purchased was at Christie's auction house in London on December 5th 1985 and it said 1787 on it and had the word with feet and had the letters THJ. Well the Koch brothers bought this bottle for a ton of money. And I think this says something not just about politics but about wine in that history is oftentimes what you want to believe the same way wine is.
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