TheWineBlog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
As a career wine professional, I’ve always approached every new wine the same way: by, first, suspending disbelief and preconceptions when looking at it in the glass, and then asking, does it taste good… are the aromas fresh, clean and compelling… the flavors rich, balanced, fine and elegant… or are they the opposite – dull, bland, rough or lean ? That’s it. No...
The Picky Eater (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I finally got around to reading The Billionair e’s Vinegar , Benjamin Wallace’s account of how high-end wine collector Hardy Rodenstock apparently hoodwinked a slew of his fellow megacollectors with fake wine. The most notorious of these wines were a cache of filthy hand-blown bottles inscribed with the initials “Th.J.,” which he attributed to America’s third President...
Yours for Good Fermentables ™ (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Clamps and Gaskets is a weekly wrap-up of stories that I have not posted at Yours For Good Fermentables.com , but that, nevertheless, I find interesting or germane. Most of the pieces deal with beer (or wine, or whisky); some do not. But all are brief, and many are re-posts from my Twitter account: twitter.com/cizauskas . This is Week 41: 11 October - 17 October 2009 2009.10.17 Well reasoned and researched...
Maya Reynolds (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Random House has settled the lawsuit brought against it three months ago in London by wine expert Michael Broadbent. Broadbent sued the publisher (although not the author Benjamin Wallace) of the book The Billionaire's Vinegar for libel. According to Slate magazine: Broadbent, the legendary former head of Christie's wine department, alleges that Wallace defamed him in his gripping whodunit about the...
eprnetwork | 10/15/2009
Leading libel and defamation law firm, Russell Jones & Walker, has won a libel victory against publishers Random House on behalf of internationally renowned wine connoisseur Michael Broadbent, who was from 1966 until 1992 the head of Christie's wine department. The libel action centred on the book The Billionaire's Vinegar, the subject of which was the provenance of a number of bottles of wine
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Random House Settles Billionaire's Vinegar Lawsuit and Apologizes, Though Author Does Not - report from Publishers Lunch Random House has settled a lawsuit brought by UK wine expert Michael Broadbent over the book BILLIONAIRE'S VINEGAR by Benjamin Wallace. The publisher apologized for allegations in the book that, as Broadbent's attorneys put it, he "had behaved in an unprofessional manner in...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Michael Broadbent the former director of Christie's wine department accepted a public apology on Thursday over claims that he behaved unprofessionally in the auction a bottle of Lafite said to have belonged to Thomas Jefferson the American president.
Diner's journal by Frank Bruni (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Michael Broadbent has settled his lawsuit over "The Billionaire's Vinegar."
Luxist (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Bartholomew Broadbent let me know that his father Michael Broadbent has settled his lawsuit against Random House for defamation of character for his potrayal in the book The Billionaire's Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace. The book centered on the infamous Jefferson wine bottles and in Broadbent's view suggested that Michael Broadbent, an esteemed wine writer and auctioneer and head of Christie's wine department...
Decanter.com (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Having won his libel case, Michael Broadbent now has to decide whether to try to block a Will Smith-produced film of The Billionaire's Vinegar.
Decanter.com (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Michael Broadbent has won a libel victory against Random House, publishers of The Billionaire's Vinegar.
Decanter.com (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Michael Broadbent, Angelo Gaja, Baron Eric de Rothschild, Serge Hochar and other iconic figures of the wine world have paid tribute to Decanter's Man of the Year 2009 – Nicolas Catena.
Dr. Vino's wine blog (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
SIPPED: waste wine A new company is turning waste wine (and beer) into ethanol. Marquee investor: Shaq. [LA Times] SPIT: bodybuilders A new, lightweight (300g) glass bottle will debut in the UK next year. [Decanter] SIPPED: “indelible stain” Michael Broadbent’s lawsuit against Random House, publisher of the The Bilionaire’s Vinegar, only serves to draw attention to the “indelible...
The New York Times Wine Blog (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
A look at Michael Broadbent's lawsuit against the author of "The Billionaire's Vinegar.''
Grogger (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
After our ‘outing’ of the venerable Michael Broadbent as a Grogger, we have the pleasure of unveiling another vino-aesthete: Answering Design Week’s Voxpop question “Which world record would you like to break?”, Ron Cregan of Navyblue Design manages to dispel his boozy fug long enough to envisage a record attempt that involves, well, drinking with his friends and family....
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eprnetwork | 10/15/2009
Leading libel and defamation law firm, Russell Jones & Walker, has won a libel victory against publishers Random House on behalf of internationally renowned wine connoisseur Michael Broadbent, who was from 1966 until 1992 the head of Christie's wine department. The libel action centred on the book The Billionaire's Vinegar, the subject of which was the provenance of a number of bottles of wine said
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