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Maximillian Potter

Biography

Maximillian Potter

Maximillian Potter, an award-winning journalist, is the senior media adviser for the governor of Colorado. He was the executive editor of 5280: Denver's Magazine, and previously a staff writer at Premiere, Philadelphia, and GQ. He has been a contributing editor to Men's Health/Best Life and Details, and contributes to Vanity Fair. Potter is a native of Philadelphia, with a BA from Allegheny College and an MSJ from Northwestern University's Medill School. He lives in Denver with his wife and two sons.

 

Maximillian Potter

Books by Maximillian Potter

Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine
by Maximillian Potter - Crime, Food, International Intrigue, Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Travel, True Crime

In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, received an anonymous note threatening the destruction of his priceless vines by poison --- a crime that in the world of high-end wine is akin to murder --- unless he paid a one million euro ransom. Villaine believed it to be a sick joke, but that proved a fatal miscalculation and the crime shocked this fabled region of France. The sinister story that Vanity Fair journalist Maximillian Potter uncovered would lead to a sting operation by some of France's top detectives, the primary suspect's suicide, and a dramatic investigation.