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The notion that red wine must be served at room temperature is an outdated concept based on it being kept in the much cooler conditions of a cellar, says Bartolotta.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The wine cellar was placed directly below the dining room, sending bottles upward as needed by concealed dumbwaiters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The ’tween deck reminds me of the root cellar at the orphanage, with its close walls and ceiling.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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The state opening will begin at 09:30 when the royal bodyguards, known as the Yeoman of the Guard, conduct a ceremonial search of the cellars of the Palace of Westminster for explosives.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
“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
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
The newly freed man took them out of the arena through the one opening that led not down into the cellars, but out into the streets of Rome.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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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
Indeed, in such vinous-caseous places cheese is on the house at all wine sales for prospective customers to snack upon and thus bring out the full flavor of the cellared vintages.
From The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown
Those transformations make cellaring fun, though the results can be divisive.
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
Stone’s Sysak, who has 2,600 bottles in his personal collection, shares Hancock’s reservations about cellaring IPAs and hoppy ales.
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
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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