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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2026
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The historic database I consulted didn't tell.
Apart from the 1942 incident, when the bath supervisor of the town (accidentally?) discovered the tiny chamber in the rock (during a high water period), found the bottle of wine put there during the 1920 draught and tasted it.
But given that Traben-Trarbach around 1900 was one of the largest wine trading centers in Europe (second only to Bordeaux), I guess that each inhabitant got its share of wine during the celebration... :-)
Damn, they couldn't even keep accurate records for 22 years to ensure such mishaps don't occur? So much for that famed German bureaucracy...
Well... your read the part about the 2nd largest wine exchange in Europe? In a town with a few thousand inhabitants? ;-)
Bureaucracy is better with wine