Reuters reported on Georgia's plans to sell 40,000 bottles of wine from Stalin's collection

This week, the Georgian government opened for the first time a storage facility containing more than 40,000 bottles of rare French and Georgian wines from the collection of Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin. This was reported by the Reuters news agency on May 29.

It is noted that part of the collection dates back to the beginning of the 19th century. The wine is expected to be auctioned, and the proceeds will be used to open a wine school in Georgia. According to Irakli Gilauri, the owner of Gilauri Wines, who collaborated with the Georgian Ministry of Agriculture on this project, the auction will help "put Georgia on the collectors' map."

The article notes that Stalin was an avid lover and collector of wine.

"His collection includes wines from the most famous Bordeaux estates, which once belonged to the Russian tsar Alexander III and his son Nicholas II. After the 1917 revolution, the Soviet authorities confiscated the Imperial Romanov collection, and Stalin became its keeper, gradually adding his favorite Georgian varieties," the agency reports.

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