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vats

noun

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plural of vat

as in bottles

a large tub or barrel used especially for holding liquids a vat of cooking oil

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Recent Examples of vats These chips melt in extreme heat, glitch in high radiation, and corrode in harsh chemical vats. —

Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Apr. 2026 To fill the cracks in all the sculptures, the artist had melted vats of beeswax. —

Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026 Also in the 1990s, physicists in Russia and Italy had put highly radioactive sources right next to huge vats of gallium, a metallic liquid that’s especially sensitive to neutrinos, to test whether the vats were working as neutrino detectors. —

Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026 Signs educate guests on the process of how the agave is fermented with yeast in large tanks and wooden vats. —

Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026 Behind every bottle of bourbon are vats of waste materials. —

Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2026 For example, the Sloomoo Slime Gallery exhibit features waist-high glossy sculptures which double as vats of slime. —

Liz Regalia, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026 In the ’60s, in an effort to imitate French practices, California winemakers started to age their wines in oak barrels, abandoning the hulking redwood and chestnut vats that had long been the standard. —

Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2026 In the fluorescent glare of a rundown Indonesian wig factory, vats of human hair simmer in huge cauldrons, stirred by hunched laborers as rows of mannequin heads watch blankly from the dark. —

Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026

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An interesting wine list includes English sparkling wines like Hundred Hills, and there are 5,000 more bottles in the cellar.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026
The vineyard is currently leased to a local winemaker, offering a hands-off approach to production, though the resulting vintages can be stored in the home’s custom wine cellar, which accommodates up to 1,880 bottles.

— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 May 2026