Inside Stalin’s Hidden Wine Cellar in Georgia: 40,000 Rare French and Georgian Bottles Emerge After Decades Underground
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Hidden for decades behind thick metal doors, between dusty corridors and bottles that have survived wars, revolutions and regime changes, one of the most extraordinary wine collections in the world has just come to light. In Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, the authorities have opened for the first time a historic winery that houses nearly 40,000 bottles linked to Iósif Stalin, many of them from some of the best wine houses in France and others more…
Tbilisi Factory No. 1 keeps thousands of bottles of wine in the depths of its chambers that have not seen the light in two centuries. Collections that belonged to the Russian Tsars and the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and that in the turbulent twentieth century ended up in the hands of Soviet dictator Iosif Stalin, the most dismal figure in the history of Georgia. Seven decades after his death, the Georgian Government opens this immense win…
"I feel like you are Indiana Jones opening a cave: it could be nothing, it could be something," said an enthusiastic collector from America.
Inside Stalin’s hidden wine cellar in Georgia: 40,000 rare French and Georgian bottles emerge after decades underground
Rest of World News: Deep beneath the streets of Tbilisi, behind heavy doors and years of silence, sits a collection that few people have ever seen. Dust-covered bottles. .
The Georgian government has opened Joseph Stalin's wine cellar in Tbilisi and plans to sell its 40,000 bottles at auction, including great wines belonging to the Russian Tsar. The funds will finance a school of oenology.
In a deep vaulted chamber, where tangled cobwebs hang from the ceiling and a musky sweetness lingers in the air, a remarkable wine collection that once belonged to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was unveiled for the first time.
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