Debay Wine Cellar

This guide to the Debay Wine Cellar follows a French captain drawn up from humid Da Nang by the mountain's swinging fog-and-cold climate, and the discovery that the rock itself held a steady, nearly constant temperature. You'll hear how engineers and local laborers tunneled sideways into that rock in 1923 to carve storage niches rented out to French and Vietnamese elite. Only two of their names survive on record, a hotelier and a lawyer.