The Sommelier Who Stole a Cellar - And Left a Pétrus Trail
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The Sommelier Who Stole a Cellar - And Left a Pétrus Trail
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A single uncorked bottle of 1987 Pétrus was found bone-dry on a granite shelf four and a half miles from the nearest road, four days after the trail opened to the public - why would a rare Bordeaux be left there? The gap between Thorpe’s fabricated credentials and the real, measurable skill he showed raises one central question: was this theft a con, a compulsion, or something else entirely?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a hiker’s photograph in July 2019 to the discovery that linked a Washington D.C. sommelier to missing cellar wines. We trace how Dennis Thorpe built expertise in private, the false documents he used, and the small anomalies that first drew attention - and ask what the uncorked Pétrus on a Maryland trail reveals about his motives.
Person: Dennis Thorpe
Job: Head sommelier at Ardenne
Location: Washington D.C. and Catoctin foothills, western Maryland
Date found: July 2019
Wine found: 1987 Pétrus (uncorked, bone-dry)
- Thorpe was 38 years old and head sommelier at Ardenne, a three-star restaurant in the West End, when arrested.
- The Pétrus was found four and a half miles from the nearest road on a trail that had been open to the public for eleven days.
- Thorpe identified seven of nine wines correctly in a blind tasting during his Ardenne interview.
- He bought an Oxford Companion to Wine, fourth edition, in 2008 and used it to train himself over three years.
- He obtained a Court of Master Sommeliers certification number belonging to Warren Estep (deceased 2009) by calling and posing as an HR administrator.
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