His bottles of wine — part of a collection seized by the Soviet army as a trophy at the end of World War II and deposited in a labyrinthine underground cellar in Moldova — are still on display.

HERMANN Goering, Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command, survived the cut. Bottles of wine once owned by him – part of a collection ...

In the 1950s, Nikita Khrushchev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party, made plans to create 'pure Soviet wines' to compete with French Burgundy and Bordeaux wines. Moldova, known for its ...