ADELAIDE, Australia - An unsteady forklift dropped a container of fine Australian wine worth more than $1 million, smashing most of the bottles. The winemaker says he’s “gut-wrenched, shocked, and numb’’ after the loss of his flagship shiraz.
Sparky Marquis of Mollydooker Wines lost a third of his Velvet Glove Shiraz production after the accident that destroyed all but one of the 462 cases bound for the United States. Each bottle of the Mollydooker wine sells for $200.
Marquis said yesterday that when crews opened the container, “it was like a murder scene. There was red everywhere.’’
He said the wine was fully insured.
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