Wine, Wine, and More Wine

 

Laying it down for a long deep slumber. 

From the WSJ...

Lying 30 meters below us is the wine world's answer to Fort Knox, an enormous subterranean cavern holding more than £1 billion worth of fine wine. If you are storing your wine through a reputed U.K. merchant, then the chances are it is probably stacked here alongside the other 680,000 cases, in one of the largest underground storage facilities in Europe. No wonder security is tight.  

Welcome to Eastlays mine deep in Wiltshire (England). First quarried in the 19th century, it is now known as Corsham Cellars. When the first tunnels were excavated, much of the honey-colored sandstone was used to build the Georgian town houses in the nearby towns of Bath and Corsham. In the late 1930s, when war looked imminent, the Ministry of Defence requisitioned it and transformed the place into a giant ammunition store, replete with lighting, whitewashed walls and concrete floors. Since 1989 its labyrinthine corridors have been stacked not with TNT but wine, belonging to collectors such as composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, financier Guy Hands and restaurateur Michel Roux Sr.

Now that the capacity of my wine cave...uhh closet, has been reduced by a quarter 16.7% (wife correction) I'm getting a bit jealous of Corsham.