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This Bunker Holds $1.5 Billion of Wine

Cavernous vaults of Bordeaux and Burgundy vintages sit in an old munitions dump deep below gently rolling English farmland.

From Bombs to Beaujolais: The Secret $1.5B Vault

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You’d never know it was there. Past a field dotted with hay bales, my driver turns up a small road that seems to go nowhere. When we reach a metal gate, a security guard comes out to greet me. Then he hands me a gas mask that looks like it should be in a war museum.

That’s not as crazy as it sounds.