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Dürkheimer Riesenfass
The Giant Cask or Giant Barrel (, locally just ''Fass'' or, in the local Palatine dialect, the ''Därgemer Fass''), is a tourist attraction in the Palatine spa and district town of Bad Dürkheim in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The wine barrel has a diameter of 13.5 metres, a volume of about 1,700,000 litres or 1,700 m³ and is thus the largest cask in the world. at www.duerkheimer-fass.de. Retrieved 13 Jun 2014 However, it is not used for the storage of wine, but houses a restaurant. Location The Giant Cask on ''St.-Michaels-Allee 1'' is northeast of the old town in the water meadows of the stream on the western edge of the 45,000 m2 ''Br ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wine Bars
A wine bar is a tavern-like business focusing on selling wine, rather than liquor or beer. A typical feature of many wine bars is a wide selection of wines available by the glass. Some wine bars are profiled on wines of a certain type of origin, such as Italian wine or Champagne. While many wine bars are private "stand-alone" establishments, in some cases, wine bars are associated with a specific wine retailer or other outlet of wine, to provide additional marketing for that retailer's wine portfolio. In countries where licensing regulations allow this, some wine bars also sell the wines they serve, and effectively function as a hybrid between a wine shop and a wine bar. United Kingdom Wine bar chains in the UK include All Bar One. United States Although the trend of wine bars in the United States was not well received in the 1980s, they began to gain popularity in the 1990s. By early 2000, wine bars became very popular and started popping up in many metropolitan neighborhoods ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
