Stalin's wine cellar / John Baker and Nick Place.

"Stolen from the Tsar, hidden from Hitler and found by a Sydney wine merchant" -- Cover.

"Based on a true story" -- Cover.

Includes index.

In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. Always entrepreneurial and up for adventure, he was the perfect person for an occasional business partner to approach with a mysterious wine list that was foreign to anything John, or his second-in-command, Kevin Hopko, had ever come across. John and Kevin embarked on an audacious, colourful and potentially dangerous journey to Georgia to discover if the wines actually existed; if the bottles were authentic and had indeed been owned by Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, and the Stalin; and whether the entire collection could be bought and transported to a major auction house for sale. Stalin's Wine Cellar is a wild, sometimes rough ride in the glamorous world of high-end wine. From Double Bay Sydney to Tbilisi Georgia, via the streets of Paris, the vineyards of Bordeaux and iconic Château d'Yquem. A multimillion dollar cellar and a breathtaking collection of wine (and one very expensive broken bottle) is the elusive treasure.