Hardy Rodenstock regularly threw multiday bacchanals that featured dozens of exceedingly rare wines and brought the most important and influential figures in the wine world to his table. Critics like James Suckling, Jancis Robinson, and Robert Parker all attended Rodenstock events. Michael Broadbent, who is the founder and head of Christie's wine department and is (or was) widely considered to be the foremost authority on ancient Bordeauxs, not only sold the Jefferson bottles; he was on hand for the big Rodenstock fetes and vouched for many of the wines served on those occasions.