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underground storage that aged from survival necessity into a flex for people with too much wine
means A room beneath a building, usually underground, used for storage—classically of wine, food, or fuel.
from From Latin 'cellarium,' a pantry or storeroom, itself from 'cella,' a small room or storehouse (the same 'cella' that gives us 'cell'). It traveled through Old French as 'celier' before settling into English, keeping its sense of a cool, hidden room for keeping things—a kinship that links a monk's bare cell and a connoisseur's wine vault back to the same humble Latin space.
- temperature trick
- earth holds steady cool, no electricity required
- root origin
- named for storing produce before refrigerators existed
- wine science
- 55°F and darkness slow grape's chemical decay
- prohibition era
- hidden cellars hid bottles from federal agents
- spider haven
- the literal namesake of cellar spiders worldwide
chateau lafite rothschild — bordeaux wine cellar with bottles dating back to 1787, worth over $100 million
mosel wine region cellars — german underground cellars carved into slate cliffs near trier, some over 600 years old
paris catacombs — 6 million skeletons stored in 2 million cubic meters of limestone quarries beneath paris