Hitler did not drink alcohol, or so I understood.
That’s what I thought too.
Nazis/Socialists/Fascists are very likely to do in private what they loudly decry in public.
Hitler did not drink very much.
But you don’t need to drink to understand the value of quality wine and liqueur. Hitler understood money.
Remember the movie Schindler’s list? At the end of the movie as Schindler was releasing his workers, he supplied them with an ample supply of vodka. He knew they (the Jews) wouldn’t drink it. But he also knew they could use it as currency especially when dealing with the Russians.
First thing I'd do would be to check the radiation count of the liquid. Anything still growing shortly after the Trinity test would start absorbing freshly made nuclear material.
The book "The Billionaire's Vinegar" recounts the fraud in "vintage" wine, including the then "newly discovered" stash of Thomas Jefferson wine he ordered, but never made it out of France.
Now that I think about it, the "original" forager was a German, a some time music producer, that kept "finding" caches of pre-phylloxea wine, spurring a couple of decades of fraud.
He was on something much worse. The Documentary "High Hitler" makes a good case that he had been dosing himself with methamphetamines since the mid 1930s.
He didn’t need to. He was crazy enough without it.
Yeah, everything I’ve ever read about Hitler,...and I’ve been reading about him for over 40 years....emphasized that he didn’t drink. I don’t believe that he drank Cognac, never mind having a “stash” of the stuff. I don’t believe it at all.