abstract:Hardy Rodenstock (born December 7, 1941 in Marienwerder (Kwidzyn), legal name Meinhard Görke) is a former publisher and manager of pop and Schlager music in Germany and is a prominent wine collector, connoisseur and trader, with a special interest in old and rare wines.The New Yorker, September 3, 2007: The Jefferson Bottles, p.
Thediscovererof theJeffersonbottles, aGermanpop-band manager turned winedealer called HardyRodenstock, would notsaywhohad sold them to him, or evenhow many were in the cache.
Another case was against HardyRodenstock, a German wine connoisseur who claimed to have discovered a cache of wine in Paris that once belonged to President Thomas Jefferson.