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Wine

The wine cellars.

Waddesdon, England

Waddesdon Manor Wine Cellars

The luxurious English estate houses the world’s largest private collection of French Rothschild wines.

Sometimes the entire tree is cut down to harvest the sap.

Palm Wine

It takes only two hours for palm sap to become palm wine.

The Secret Blue Ice Cloud in Every Champagne Bottle

Cheers to high-speed cameras.

Natasha Frost September 15, 2017

Cheerwine, since 1917.

Cheerwine

A World War I sugar shortage led an inventor to make a very cherry soda that looks like wine.

The walls of the catacombs are mostly made of limestone, an easy material for wine thieves to bore through.

Thieves Infiltrated the Paris Catacombs to Steal $300,000 of Wine

An underground oenological heist.

Natasha Frost August 30, 2017

Wine grapes are no longer a necessity for making wine.

This Wine Is Made in a Warehouse, Instead of a Winery

Is wine really wine without the grapes?

Kelsey Kennedy August 9, 2017

The picturesque wine cellars of Vrbice.

Vrbice, Czechia

Vrbice Wine Cellars

A mesmerizing landscape of 18th-century cellars carved out of the land.

How many pink elephants wearing thick black-framed glasses sipping a martini have you seen?

Fortville, Indiana

Martini-Drinking Pink Elephant

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

Madeira wine from 1796, and a larger jug from the 1820s.

Found: Three Cases of Madeira Bought for John Adams’ Presidency

The wine still tastes pretty decent.

Sarah Laskow July 10, 2017

The letters were essentially invisible.

Found: A Hidden Request on the Back of an Ancient, Rare Pottery Shard

It’s one guy asking another to send some wine and food over.

Sarah Laskow June 16, 2017

Noble rot causes grapes to lose water and shrivel up, but it's not all bad news.

How Noble Rot Makes for a Better, Peachier White Wine

Scientists compared how different fungi affect a wine's bouquet.

Kelsey Kennedy May 30, 2017

On the right, this barrel is supposed to be filled with the oldest alcohol still stored in the world, a white wine from the year 1472.

Strasbourg, France

Historic Wine Cellar of Strasbourg Hospital

This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.

VECTORR in the Mendocino vineyard

Ukiah, California

Vectorr Train Prototype

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

The 2016 harvest for the Kreuzberg vineyard amounts to 27 crates in total.

Berlin’s Secret Cold War-Era Vineyard

This tiny, hidden vineyard planted at the birthplace of the first computer produces only 350 bottles of wine each year.

Jordan Todorov January 4, 2017

Although there are two spigots, only red wine is provided

Villa Caldari, Italy

Cammino di San Tommaso Fountain of Wine

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

Sabotage!

Radical Wine Terrorists Flood French Town In Red

They have some grievances.

Cara Giaimo August 5, 2016

Monarch Wine Company Ruins, June 2016

Kelleys Island, Ohio

Kelleys Island Winery Ruins

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

Found: A Stash of 19th Century Wine Abandoned by Nazi Sympathizers

It's still good!

Sarah Laskow June 8, 2016