The winery took almost four years to build because it involved dynamiting into the hill behind it to create two 3, 500-square-foot stone wine caves.

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The old city, called a Tera has been beautifully maintained, its narrow alleyways dotted with pristine stone archways, inviting bed and breakfasts and quaint wine tasting cellars.

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For guidance on how to build one of these boozy masterpieces, I turned to Krystina Castella and Terry Lee Stone, authors of Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked With Spirits, Wine, and Beer (Quirk, 2010), essential reading for the tippling baker.

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