The Hunt for Hume’s Wine Cellar


An office block from the 1950s built atop David Hume’s house is being demolished, and historians are hoping to find Hume’s wine cellar underneath. “He was a famous chef and prided himself on his cooking and he had a famous wine cellar,” historian Mike Turnbull says. Who knows what else will be, uh, exhumed from the site?

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