Tsar Alexander III

Stalin’s secret wine cellar of 40,000 bottles unsealed for first time

Stalin's underground wine cellar holds 40,000 Georgian and French bottles

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. Cobwebs hanging from stone ceilings.

Secret wine stash, hidden by suspected Nazi sympathisers, unveiled after decades under castle floor

Secret wine stash, hidden by suspected Nazi sympathisers, unveiled after decades under castle floor The family fled across the border at the end of the Second World War, leaving the cache behind - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments A remarkable collection of late 19th-century wine, discovered after decades hidden beneath a chapel floor in the Czech Republic's Becov castle, has been painstakingly restored by the renowned French winery Château d’Yquem and is now on public display. The 133...