![]() ![]() Among the priceless bottles destroyed were 175 bottles of Port and Angelica from one of the oldest vineyards in California made by Frances Dinkelspiel's great-great grandfather, Isaias Hellman, in 1875. With a propane torch and a bucket of gasoline-soaked rags, Anderson annihilated entire California vineyard libraries as well as bottles of some of the most sought-after wines in the world. The fire had been deliberately set by a passionate oenophile named Mark Anderson, a skilled con man and thief with storage space at the warehouse who needed to cover his tracks. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of California's finest wine worth more than $250 million, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. "On October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. ![]() Tracing the history of California's world of wine and how passion for the liquid some have called "the elixir of the gods" has driven people to extremes, a riveting narrative exposes the violent and obsessive world underneath the oh-so-laid-back label of the California wine trade. ![]()
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