![]() ![]() Gretchen Allen, the head sommelier, hopes to grow the subterranean space to 100,000 bottles. This 30,000-acre Wyoming cattle ranch recently debuted The Farm, a food-and-drink dimension with a distillery, brewery, restaurant and state-of-the-art cellar. Guests can tour the inventory daily, or book a private exploration of the Bordeaux or Grand Cru rooms. The biggest draw, though, is its wine cellar, a nine-room maze comprised of more than 5,100 labels that focuses on France, Italy and California. Situated on the four-star Crystal Springs Resort, this New Jersey restaurant (also a Wine Enthusiast Restaurant Hall of Fame honoree) gained a reputation over the past 15 years for its seasonal New American cuisine. The Bordeaux Room at Restaurant Latour/Photo by Lyndsay Cayetana Bouchai Restaurant Latour: 100,000 bottles Guests can view its “Cathedral,” a private collection of bottles from every vintage since the winery’s first 1862 harvest-just a sample of its full inventory. Founded in 1858, the winery is comprised of three buildings, which includes the original Bodega 1860 cellar. Marqués de Riscal’s “Cathedral”: 135,000 bottlesīetween a luxury hotel, spa and Michelin-starred dining, there’s ample reason to visit the Marqués de Riscal City of Wine, one of the oldest and largest wineries in Spain’s Rioja region. Rarities include an 1865 Château Lafite and a 1727 Rüdesheimer Apostelwein. It showcases more than 5,000 wineries from 20 countries. Owner Enrico Garzaroli has curated the selection for decades. Located in a historic 18th-century mansion, this lavish hotel in Nassau, Bahamas, houses the Caribbean’s first five-star restaurant, an accolade enhanced only by its colossal wine collection. Marqués de Riscal/Photo by Meg Baggott The Graycliff: 275,000 bottles Diners can check out more than 200 options by the glass to pair with the restaurant’s prized plates, from Chateaubriand carpaccio and duck confit to Osetra caviar and foie gras a la plancha. The focus at the Tampa restaurant is on France and California, and the cellar includes rarities like an 1845 Château Gruaud Larose. Bern’s Steakhouse: 750,000 bottlesīern’s Steakhouse, a member of Wine Enthusiast‘s Restaurant Hall of Fame, opened in 1956 and has a loyal following for its lauded wine collection. Monaco’s Prince Rainier and Princess Grace celebrated their 20th anniversary there. ![]() Guests can taste through the selection at either the onsite, Michelin-starred restaurants, or a private dining experience in the cellars. Once completed, the cellar’s combined surface area reached more than 16,000 square feet. Inspired by the grand cellars of Bordeaux, this space was built in 1874 behind Monte Carlo’s famed Hôtel de Paris. Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo: 350,000 bottles Visitors explore the 34-mile gallery via car, organized by “streets” named for each wine. A cellar this size needs room to breathe. Bottles at Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo/Courtesy of Guillaume Jahan de Lestang Milestii Mici: 2,000,000 bottlesįounded in 1969, this Moldovan producer celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, further heightened by its epic wine collection, recognized in 2005 by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest cellar by number of bottles. ![]() From a $10 million spectacle in Wyoming to a subterranean city in Moldova, here are some of the globe’s most groundbreaking wine collections worthy of a visit. Luckily, these venues showcase their best. The only thing as good as being able to choose from these immense inventories, of course, is the chance to see them firsthand. Some of the world’s newest and most historic properties boast impressive cellars that are outdone only by the wines themselves, like 2000 Pétrus and 1845 Château Gruaud Larose. ![]() Whoever said there can be too much of a good thing surely needed to consider one exception: the wine cellar. ![]()
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