Wine Heist Rattles Silicon Valley

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Issue: April 30, 2007

A theft of 440 bottles of rare and expensive wines, including a magnum of 1959 Château Pétrus, has shaken wine collectors in the exclusive Silicon Valley enclave of Atherton, south of San Francisco. The theft from the cellar of a private home was discovered on Jan.

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