Nick Miles

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So in St.

Petersburg, around 200,000 bottles stored.

And when communists came in 1917, the cellar was raided by the communists and they were drinking, etc.,

But when Stalin came in power, he realized that it's a very valuable piece of wines and he just locked them up.

And then when Hitler was marching towards St.

Petersburg, he moved the cellar into three pieces.

One went to the Crimea, one went to Georgia, and one we don't know where it is.

So the Crimea one was auctioned out in the 90s.

So this is a kind of only known part of this Romanov cellar, which I guess Stalin was adding more wines to.

And Stalin was Georgian himself, and he was a big fan of wine.

But these were, as you say, wine bottles that belonged to the Russian royal family.

But despite being a communist, he didn't destroy them.

He thought that maybe one day, I guess he wanted to drink some of them.

As far as we know, he liked the sweet wine.

And hence why the camps are there and some of the port is there.

But basically, yeah, I mean, him being Georgian and Georgians know a lot about the wine.

So he saw the value there, obviously, and did not destroy this unique collection.

Dessert wines and things like port can keep for many decades and maybe even longer.

Do you think that many of the wines, though, won't be drinkable, that they will have turned to vinegar?

To be honest, what I have observed there, 80% of this wine is probably not drinkable, most likely.

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