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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