This is William Koch's wine bathroom. Yes, that's a thing.

William Koch, of the Koch brothers, showed off his wine basement, bathroom, and mistress.

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You know you've made it in life when you get to take Sotheby's on a tour of your wine bathroom. By this measure, William Koch, of the Koch brothers, has made it.

Koch recently sold 20,000 bottles of wine from his personal collection in a three-day event that raked in $21.9 million. In the lead-up to the event, Koch made a promotional video and took some members of the media on a tour of his cellars, including a reporter from FiveThirtyEight:

It's an opulent cellar, replete with Roman mosaics, a Guastavino-style ceiling, and a Dionysian bust. The bathroom is, one can't help but assume, where Koch and his guests unzip the flies of tailored Brioni suit pants and catch final glimpses of $1,000 bottles of Burgundy and Bordeaux, since metabolized and micturated. [FiveThirtyEight]

Take a journey through the cellar with a pit stop in the bathroom (and a visit to the wine mistress), below. Jeva Lange

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.