By that logic almost every organisation should have a private wine cellar. Normally when entertaining you buy wine from suppliers on demand, not build up an eno

By that logic almost every organisation should have a private wine cellar. Normally when entertaining you buy wine from suppliers on demand, not build up an enormous stash yourself. But it's not the fact that they have drinks on site that surprised me. It's the vast quantity. The entire stock of all drinks including non-alcoholic drinks you point to is worth only about £30,000 vs the EU which has over 40,000 bottles of wine alone. I'd guess the value of the EU drinks cabinet is thus at least 10x great, probably more like 50x-100x greater. It's reflective of a wider problem with incredibly profligate spending on luxuries for EU staff at a time when most European governments are trying to cut their spending to manageable levels.