cellar
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During that winter, the farmhouse's cellar flooded, the pipes froze and "the tractor just decided to go kaput".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The garden level holds a media room, guest room, laundry room and a cedar-lined 636-bottle wine cellar carved from one of the home’s original eccentricities: a secret tunnel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The house has a wood-paneled office with a coffered ceiling and a brick-floored wine cellar with an antique wine press.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
A 1999 6-liter “Methuselah” bottle from the cellar of billionaire businessman Bill Koch sold for $275,000 at a Christie’s auction last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
The cellar shook as the American tanks rolled past the house, and, as Henry saw the immense tanks, he realized for the first time how frightening German tanks must have appeared to the Russian people.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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“I have felt for a long time that there are thousands and thousands of American citizens with cellars full of guns,” Close said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
And though Drouhin simply acknowledged her own winery, I’ll do more than that: No trip to Beaune would be complete without a visit to the impressive historic cellars of Maison Joseph Drouhin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
The cellars of the castle played host to a prison cell, a mess room and an armoury.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2024
That preference held across a wide range of indoor environments, from science labs to art studios, locker rooms to wine cellars.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024
We don’t have pagan altars in our cellars anymore.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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That said, it could also be cellared for a few years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
“It transforms cellared vegetables and stale bread into something absolutely magical,” she said.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025
Owen: It’s unclear where the wine comes from, although the label notes it’s cellared and bottled by DC Flynt MW Selections in Modesto, California.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
An adage had it that you drank wine cellared by your parents, and bought wine for your children.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2020
Winter retires from the foe into his fortress, where a magazine Of sovereign juice is cellared in; Liquor that will the siege maintain Should Phoebus ne'er return again.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot
And even though glass will almost certainly remain the packaging of choice, we may see more boxes and cans, especially for wines not intended for cellaring.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021
Those transformations make cellaring fun, though the results can be divisive.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2015
“Different styles improve in a positive manner, whether that’s over six months or six years,” says Bill Sysak, craft beer ambassador for Stone Brewing in California, who has emerged as a well-regarded expert in cellaring.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2015
When Dogfish Head released the latest batch of 120 Minute, in mid-August, beer lovers lined up to pay $200 a case, with many telling Calagione they had cellaring plans.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2015
He'll break out some day like a keg of ale With too much independent frenzy in it; And all for cellaring what he knows won't keep, And what he'd best forget—but that he can't.
From The Man Against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson
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