A crook with knowledge of high-end wine tore into the French Laundry’s expansive cellar, bypassing hundreds of bottles of lesser vintages to zero in on the priciest pickings at the celebrated Napa Valley restaurant. On Tuesday, news of the calculated Christmas Day heist was rippling through Northern California’s restaurant scene as detectives probe for clues, hoping to catch the person who plundered hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the world’s rarest and greatest wines. The burglar or burglars made off with 76 bottles from the three-Michelin-star restaurant in Yountville. Some of the pilfered French Burgundy, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, sells for more than $10,000 a...
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