In the past, Polish hospitality was widely known, including outside of the country. In line with the rules of hospitality (the well-known proverb ‘Gość w dom Bóg w dom’, lit. ‘guest in the house, God in the house’), no self-respecting nobleman’s home could be without good liquor – it was collected and carefully stored in cellars called ‘wineries’. The Dębno Museum has had a ‘winery’ (reconstructed in the smaller cellar under the western building) for several decades. It houses the equipment needed to produce and store homemade spirits. It contains, among other things, an oak barrel reconstructed based on the dimensions of an original 17th-century barrel, two smaller stoneware barrels set on iron racks, and ceramic bottles for ageing wine. The hanging shelves, rack and table display bottles, both glass and ceramic, including a set made of colourless glass by the Baczewski company in Lviv (est. 1782), as well as 19th-century stoneware bottles, mainly of German origin. The iron rack holds bottles from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, made in nearby breweries, the Okocim Brewery in Brzesk and Sanguszko Princes’ Brewery in Tarnów. A curious element of the winery was the sand scattered on the floor, which was meant to guard the wine against uninvited aficionados of this wonderful drink.