wine cellar

noun

: a room for storing wines
also : a stock of wines

Examples of wine cellar in a Sentence

She has built up an impressive wine cellar over the years.
Recent Examples on the Web The residence is also equipped with an elevator, five fireplaces, a rock and brick wine cellar complete with a tasting booth, a Tudor-style pub, a fitness center, a billiards room and a home theater with an 8-by-6-foot screen. Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2024 Pre-movie drinks are served in four interior bars, including the Champagne bar and wine cellar room. Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2024 Replete with nerve-shredding, suspenseful set pieces — the wine cellar sequence is Hitchcock at his most sadistically brilliant — Notorious, for all its melodramatic beats, explores the horrible moral tension that lurks in even theoretically altruistic espionage. Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2024 Especially not one with a wine cellar and bar this impressive. Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024 Built in 1991, the mansion has a game room, exercise room and wine cellar as well as a pool, pool house and guest house outside. Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2024 The auction house’s first gender-free watch auction, which took place in an underground wine cellar in Geneva, eclipsed estimates to achieve an impressive $1.3 million. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024 Positioned on a hill with views of the rolling countryside, a vegetable garden, a historic wine cellar, and recently renovated rooms in the former stables, the property is undeniably enchanting. Laura Itzkowitz, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2024 The watches will be showcased underground – at the wine cellar La Corne à Vin, 47 bis Rue de Lausanne in Geneva – from 8 April to 10 April, in a bespoke public exhibition designed by heist-out to take advantage of the unexpected location. Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of wine cellar was in the 14th century

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“Wine cellar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wine%20cellar. Accessed 30 Apr. 2024.

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