![]() ![]() Now owned by Stalin, the wine was discreetly removed to a remote Georgian winery when Stalin was concerned the advancing Nazi army might overrun Russia, and inevitably loot artefacts and treasures. The wine had become the property of the state after the Russian Revolution of 1918, during which Nicholas and his entire family were executed. The list was discovered to be a comprehensive catalogue of the wine collection of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. ![]() Always entrepreneurial and up for adventure, he was the perfect person for an occasional business partner to approach with a mysterious wine list that was foreign to anything John, or his second-in-command, Kevin Hopko, had ever come across. In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin’s secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in Georgia it is the Raiders of the Lost Ark of wine. ![]()
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