Local native Joanne Sydney Lessner brings an urban tale about the world’s most expensive bottle of wine to life in her debut novel “Pandora’s Bottle.”

Joanne Sydney Lessner has always been fascinated with wine. Even as an 18-year-old Newburgh Free Academy student enjoying a meal at local restaurant Banta’s Steak and Stein, Lessner would ask for a glass of red wine with her steak. It stands to reason, then, that when she heard the story of a man who spent a quarter of a million dollars on a bottle of wine once owned by Thomas Jefferson she was instantly captivated. A few years later the plot unfolded for her first novel, Pandora’s Bottle, which will hit stores on June 12, 2010. Click here for full article… »

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