VIDEO: Inside the Caribbean’s Biggest Wine Cellar

By: - January 22nd, 2016

It’s home to some 275,000 bottles of wine, making it the third-largest private wine collection on earth and the biggest wine cellar in the Caribbean.

This is Graycliff, the onetime pirate manor and getaway for British royals that’s now one of the region’s top boutique hotels. CJ got an exclusive look inside the cellar, which is also home to one of the world’s oldest bottles of wine, a 1727 Rudesheimer Apostelwein from Germany.

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