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Show Vast Liquor Cisterns in Uce in Portugal I visited a gigantic wine cellar (near Lisbon, Portugal), where it seemed that enough drink to intoxicate the entire world had been stored, writes Roda Boda in "Uhu," Berlin, as translated trans-lated for the Living Age. It boasted 24 enormous cisterns two stories high, filled with the most costly wine, and vast tubs of mahogany holding 75,000 liters each. The champagne cellar is In the form of a tunnel 500 yards long, packed with bottles. Workers shake each of these bottles dally In a special way for four years before the champagne is sold. The entire enterprise is still called the Royal Wine company, In spite of the objections raised by the republic. t)ne of the cellars contains port dating dat-ing to 175(5, and the bottles, thickly covered with dust, look like little hairy apes, sitting in pigeonholes. Old women clean and cork these bottles with amazing speed. |