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The Heidelberg Tun (German: Großes Fass), or Great Heidelberg Tun, is an extremely large wine vat contained within the cellars of Heidelberg Castle. There have been four such barrels in the history of Heidelberg. In 1751, the year of its construction, the present one had a capacity of 221,726 litres (58,574 U.S. gallons).
The word chandelier was first known in the English language in the sense as used today in 1736, borrowed from the word in French that means a candleholder. It may have been derived from chandelle meaning "tallow candle", [4] or chandelabre in Old French and candēlābrum in Latin, and ultimately from candēla meaning "candle".
Cut crystal wine glasses in the "Fakiris" series by the FA Knittel, Reinerzer Kristallglaswerke, in cameo glass technique. Originally a vessel of "crystal" exclusively meant one carved from the transparent mineral rock crystal, an extravagant and highly expensive object. The glass industry appropriated the term for glass objects. [3]
We all know Napa Valley, California, for its wine, ... cabernet sauvignon spends at least two years barrel-aging inside the 19th-century winery. ... process, mosaic floors, crystal chandeliers ...
The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Medieval Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, [1] oil or honey. Typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallons) were also used. [2] The modern tun is about 954 litres.
The “Barrel House,” a home made out of a pair of two-story tall reclaimed redwood wine barrels in Big Sur, is on the market. And it can be yours for only $3.265 million.