Understanding Wine Through Movement
Every bottle
has a journey.
YaadWine explores the world through wine — the migration, the history, the culture, and the science behind every bottle.
Here is the region. Here is the grape. Here is the classification.
How did it get there? Who moved it? Who changed it? Who was left out of the story?
Why YaadWine
Wine has always been a story of movement. Grapes crossed borders. People carried traditions across oceans. Cultures reshaped what was planted, produced, and poured.
YaadWine exists to explore those journeys — because understanding where wine came from means understanding the people who carried it forward.
History and celebration can sit at the same table.
The Lens
Four ways we look at every bottle
Wine Through Migration
How people moved. How grapes moved. How ideas moved. How cultures mixed and changed each other along the way.
See stories →Wine Through Science
Fermentation, microbiology, smoke taint, climate, yeast — the invisible forces that decide what ends up in the glass.
See stories →Wine Through Culture
Food, music, art, history, language — the human context that gives a bottle meaning beyond what's in it.
See stories →Wine Not Find Out?
Drunk Stole My Wine
Five questions about real wine heists. How good a wine detective are you?
Round 1 of 5
When did thieves hit the wine cellar at The French Laundry in 2014?
Round 2 of 5
Atrio, a Spanish hotel and restaurant with two Michelin stars at the time, lost 45 bottles, including an 1806 Château d'Yquem. How did the thieves reach the cellar?
Round 3 of 5
A maintenance technician at Burgundy wine estates was caught on camera taking four bottles. Police then searched his home and his mother's. What had he done with the wine he stole?
Round 4 of 5
In October 2026, thieves hit a Marchesi Antinori cellar near Cortona, in Tuscany. About how many bottles were taken?
Round 5 of 5
In February 2020, burglars broke through the cellar wall of Formel B, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Copenhagen, and took roughly 50 to 60 bottles. Some of them later turned up. How?
Your Detective Rank Is
Master Somm-eye
Score: 0 of 5
You cracked every case. Nothing leaves this cellar without you knowing about it. Wine not lock the door behind you?
Your Detective Rank Is
Sergeant Sauvignon
Score: 0 of 5
You know your heists. A couple of bottles slipped past you, but you'd still make the arrest.
Your Detective Rank Is
Rosé-Colored Glasses Detective
Score: 0 of 5
You've got instincts. Study the receipts below, then come back and take another run at it.
Your Detective Rank Is
Château Gullible
Score: 0 of 5
The thieves would love to meet you. Read the receipts below, they're the good part.
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Shop the Merch StoreThe Receipts
1. When did thieves hit the wine cellar at The French Laundry in 2014?
Christmas Day, 2014. The Napa Valley restaurant was closed for renovations when thieves took about 110 bottles worth nearly $550,000, including Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, which can run up to $10,000 a bottle. Across three California businesses, the FBI plea agreement valued the haul at more than $870,000.
2. Atrio, a Spanish hotel and restaurant with two Michelin stars at the time, lost 45 bottles, including an 1806 Château d'Yquem. How did the thieves reach the cellar?
They checked in as guests, had dinner, then slipped in while staff were distracted. The pair asked a clerk for more food. While he was in the kitchen, the man slipped into the cellar. Nobody noticed the bottles were missing until later. Two suspects were arrested in Croatia in 2022. In March 2023 a Spanish court sentenced them to four and four and a half years in prison and ordered them to pay about €753,000 to the restaurant's insurer. None of the bottles has been recovered, and both deny the crime.
3. A maintenance technician at Burgundy wine estates was caught on camera taking four bottles. Police then searched his home and his mother's. What had he done with the wine he stole?
He kept them all. Police found about 8,000 stolen bottles at his home and his mother's. Bank records showed no sales, and the bottles went back intact to their owners. The court called him "half-kleptomaniac, half-collector" and gave him a 12-month suspended sentence and a €10,000 fine. One owner, Albert Bichot, asked for a symbolic €1.
4. In October 2026, thieves hit a Marchesi Antinori cellar near Cortona, in Tuscany. About how many bottles were taken?
About 30,000 bottles. Reports put the haul at roughly €5 million. At least seven masked people reportedly switched off the alarm and cameras, then used two trucks and the winery's own forklifts. As of October 16, 2026, no arrests have been reported. This story is still developing.
5. In February 2020, burglars broke through the cellar wall of Formel B, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Copenhagen, and took roughly 50 to 60 bottles. Some of them later turned up. How?
A wine dealer near Stuttgart, Germany, offered them for sale. The thieves had knocked a hole in the cellar wall from the wine shop next door. The dealer was selling the bottles for a woman who said she had bought them from someone else, and Danish police announced that about a third of the stolen wine had been recovered. As of 2023 reports, no one had been convicted and the rest of the bottles were still missing.
Every bottle has a journey. Some of them take a detour through a getaway truck.
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Read the storyWhat We Believe
- Wine belongs to everyone.
- Every bottle has a story.
- History tastes better in a glass.
- Curiosity matters more than scores.
- Great wine is about people before prestige.
- Every bottle is a passport.
Every bottle has a journey.
Every journey tells a wine story.