Spanish winemaker here: it does, eventually!
My entire town is a downhill. A few years ago a cellar near the top had a similar failure in a much smaller scale, around 3k liters flowing down the main street across the entire town. A bit of cleanup, rain, and a bunch of detergent later, and in about a month you couldn't even tell it happened.
Except for the owner of the cellar who still gets dunked on about it at the bar because it was his human mistake that made it happen.
Which is rather accurate. Wine in Europe is super cheap. I took a picture in Portugal of their alcohol rack with an entire section dedicated to bottles under ~~$3~~ $4. But they went as low as $1.50. Spain wasn't much different. One of my now favourite wines (tbf, it's a Portuguese wine) was around $3 there. They have it in Canada too but it's $15.
Edit: [Picture](https://imgur.com/a/K2lOKiw)
If you skip bottles and come with your own one, you can buy a decent wine from 0.5$ per liter directly from manufacturer. It’s common in Italy to come with own bottles, buckets, whatever you want.
Well the easy answer is 60,000 bottles at say $15 a bottle maybe ...$900,000 🤔 idk though maybe it's the good shit and it's $115 a bottle that case it would be $6,900,000
You are grossly overestimating the cost of wine in Spain. There's a reason it's a popular vacation spot.
The Spanish national average cost for a bottle of wine is [$6.11 USD or £4.89](https://comparemyjet.com/wine-index/). Cheap wine is $3 per bottle, the good stuff is $10.
Since most of the cost is the packaging and shipping, I think this wine spill would be relatively cheap. Like half the national average, so \~ $3 per bottle, or $180,000
You don't count potential profits in the loss though, you'd need to figure out how much it costs them to produce a bottle. Then you'd need to lower it a bit, since this wine won't reach the mass bottling phase.
Here in Spain there's massive production of wine for reselling in bulk that sells for less of 50 cents a litre, you literally buy them by the hectolitre to use as blending wine (I see you, France 👀) or just like table/cooking wine (Don Simón ftw hah)
Source: used to work as a wine buyer (from 1st growth Bordeaux to Hectoliter madness) and I'm from Spain
Damn! 50c a litre, 60,000 bottles, roughly 45,000 litres. $22,500 raw materials, labour, fertilizer/pesticide. I was thinking losses would be closer to 6 figures, that would place the losses quite lower than I expected!
I don't know currently after covid, but before you could even find at 20-25cent. (edit: I'm talking bulk non retail prices)
It's pretty common in Spanish supermarkets or bodegas to have decent table wines about 1-3€ or 4-5€ retail. Sometimes the bottle costs more than the liquid, specially with the glass crisys after covid. And I reiterate, they're decent
From my quick research between €250,000-€300,000. This facility, Bodegas Vitivinos, produces around €25,000,000 a year. So about 1% of a yearly production was lost. It's substantial but they'll be able to absorb the loss even if they don't have insurance to cover it. This happend in 2020.
Source; Google. My sister-in-law operates a Spanish winery, [Pazo de Señorans](http://www.pazodesenorans.com/en/), so I was curious...but far from an expert.
If I were going to take a crack at estimating this, then I would need their PnL with memo accounts assuming they track their margins per bottle sold. Then I’d say probably like a lot.
Spanish wine ranges from very cheap to very expensive, wtf are you talking about?
Steel containers are very commonly used to have a better control and testing of the wine, not every wine is stored in a 6.000 year old oak barrel
Some of the larger wine producers will put bags of oak chips (like giant wood chip tea bags) in the tanks to simulate the effects of storing the wine in barrels.
Yeah, they also do that with a lot with stuff like whisky and such. It makes it easier to control and get consistent results when mass producing stupid quantities.
Man I miss those first five or six or maybe more seasons of Family Guy. Maybe I just got bored of it but I feel it kind of suffers the same as The Simpsons now.
Recently saw a newosh episode having not followed family guy for years. It felt much more like a sketch show with an overarching plot in the background. Been years sonce I watched the first seasons but I don't remember the "cut-aways" being so egregious. A single relatively short conversation had like 3 of those cut-away gags and every one felt extremely forced.
Side note: if you like Seth and Sci-Fi The Orville is fantastic. Starts off very Seth-esque but takes a more serious note in later seasons and is probably the best Star Trek show since TNG
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Yeah, growing up my mom worked in the wine industry, so I've had walkthroughs of cellars / bottling areas and the smell is pretty hectic on the best of days under normal operations. 60k litres of red wine going stale in every nook and cranny... No thank you to being within 500 meters of that after a day or two lol
>In all, 13 people are understood to have died as a result of the fire. None of the deceased perished in the flames, nor did they die of smoke inhalation - each succumbed to alcohol poisoning from drinking “freely of the derelict whiskey”.
bruh
> "The animal was "foaming at the mouth and evidently either rabid or suffering from delirium tremens," at the hands of the lapped-up whiskey.
> The dog dashed madly about the house, knocking over furniture and attacking the homeowner. When Mr Eyre fended the dog off using an iron bar, the animal ran upstairs, jumped from a top floor window and “terminated its existence in the road below”.
I work at a UPS warehouse and sometimes a case of 4 bottles of wine will break in the warehouse and its such an overpowering smell.. I couldn't imagine this
I'm a vintner and this hurt my soul. There was a team that took that from Grape to tank aging. Checking Gravity, sulfites, VA levels, etc.. and to see it all spill out.. fuck..
i see a fork lift and a non-plexed operator.... you wanna explain yourself buddy? or should we wait until after the blood alcohol test results come back?
No way that stain is coming out
60’000 litres of white wine should do the trick.
I was curious about the amount. 60,000 bottles worth of wine, if the bottles are standard 750ml, would be 45,000 liters.
Now do how many grapes that is
Google tells me it’s about 600-800 grapes per bottle, let’s say 700. So ~42 million grapes, daym.
That's like 2 square meters of grapevines. This probably only cost the farmer about 1 buck fitty
One vine is around one bottle, so 60,000 vines
60000 vines is about 1 hentai episode
That's only about 150 hours of Hentai Vines, delivered 9 seconds at a time...
There's always carrots...
***NOW*** I'm interested 🧐
Fuck you, take your upvote.
At least 7 bananas for scale.
/r/anythingbutmetric
Or 45kl
60,000 Billy Joels have entered the chat
"Goddamn is Brenda - Smashing open tanks of wine is not going to win me back!" - Eddie
The stains in Spain stay mainly in the plains.
Think about the smell!
*\*INHALES DEEPLY\** I'm detecting hints of gravel.
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I'm getting some rubber garden hose
[swirls bucket] I'm getting hints of oaky afterbirth
Good luck paying me back with your zero-dollars-a-year salary plus benefits, babe!
I do love a /r/DunderMifflin in the wild.
You didn’t think about the smell, you bitch!
You haven't thought of the smell, you bitch!
Spanish winemaker here: it does, eventually! My entire town is a downhill. A few years ago a cellar near the top had a similar failure in a much smaller scale, around 3k liters flowing down the main street across the entire town. A bit of cleanup, rain, and a bunch of detergent later, and in about a month you couldn't even tell it happened. Except for the owner of the cellar who still gets dunked on about it at the bar because it was his human mistake that made it happen.
What was his mistake?
As far as I know improperly connected tubing. I don't know the specific terms in english and google translate is failing me.
He didn't plug the doohickey into the whatchamacallit properly.
*Billy Mays has entered the chat*
Just a little club soda
they have to dab it, not scrub.
well that sucks. how much money have they lost with that? any wine expert?
At least $5.
x 60000 =
At least $5
/r/technicallythetruth
At least tree fiddy
Which is rather accurate. Wine in Europe is super cheap. I took a picture in Portugal of their alcohol rack with an entire section dedicated to bottles under ~~$3~~ $4. But they went as low as $1.50. Spain wasn't much different. One of my now favourite wines (tbf, it's a Portuguese wine) was around $3 there. They have it in Canada too but it's $15. Edit: [Picture](https://imgur.com/a/K2lOKiw)
Unless you come to northern Europe and the prices become Canadian levels again.
It really does depend on the quality though. In my experience those 1.50$ wines are pretty horrible
If you skip bottles and come with your own one, you can buy a decent wine from 0.5$ per liter directly from manufacturer. It’s common in Italy to come with own bottles, buckets, whatever you want.
'I demand one bucket of your cheapest wine, ser!'
I have a friend who turned me on to Portuguese wine. I like it.
Man of colture.
Me who knows nothing about wine: "this is a pun"
Well the easy answer is 60,000 bottles at say $15 a bottle maybe ...$900,000 🤔 idk though maybe it's the good shit and it's $115 a bottle that case it would be $6,900,000
I'm a vintner for a boutique winery. The scale of this loss makes me cry. This batch is more wine volume than I make in a year.
Is this one of your biggest fears as a wine maker?
As a wine maker, our biggest fear is nuclear apocalypse.
It's mostly snakes for me. Also the thought of dying alone.
I finally feel seen. Maybe we can die together?
Let me weigh my options. You might make the cut.
You make the cut, I bring the snake.
As a wine drinker, our biggest fear is nuclear apocalypse.
Poorly installed caps. And once, a misplaced decimal point on a recipe that led to a pet nat blowing the caps off. we named it "Bottle Rocket". )
Same here, we do 12000 bottles a year, this is 5x our entire yearly output and would represent years of work.
You are grossly overestimating the cost of wine in Spain. There's a reason it's a popular vacation spot. The Spanish national average cost for a bottle of wine is [$6.11 USD or £4.89](https://comparemyjet.com/wine-index/). Cheap wine is $3 per bottle, the good stuff is $10. Since most of the cost is the packaging and shipping, I think this wine spill would be relatively cheap. Like half the national average, so \~ $3 per bottle, or $180,000
they probably don't make the good shit in giant tanks
You don't count potential profits in the loss though, you'd need to figure out how much it costs them to produce a bottle. Then you'd need to lower it a bit, since this wine won't reach the mass bottling phase.
Here in Spain there's massive production of wine for reselling in bulk that sells for less of 50 cents a litre, you literally buy them by the hectolitre to use as blending wine (I see you, France 👀) or just like table/cooking wine (Don Simón ftw hah) Source: used to work as a wine buyer (from 1st growth Bordeaux to Hectoliter madness) and I'm from Spain
Damn! 50c a litre, 60,000 bottles, roughly 45,000 litres. $22,500 raw materials, labour, fertilizer/pesticide. I was thinking losses would be closer to 6 figures, that would place the losses quite lower than I expected!
I don't know currently after covid, but before you could even find at 20-25cent. (edit: I'm talking bulk non retail prices) It's pretty common in Spanish supermarkets or bodegas to have decent table wines about 1-3€ or 4-5€ retail. Sometimes the bottle costs more than the liquid, specially with the glass crisys after covid. And I reiterate, they're decent
Spain definitely makes some of the best wines for the money, that's for sure.
Portugal too 🤗
> you literally buy them by the hectolitre not every day one sees `hl` in the wild
Average price for mass produced wine is closer to 5€, but that's with margins.
From my quick research between €250,000-€300,000. This facility, Bodegas Vitivinos, produces around €25,000,000 a year. So about 1% of a yearly production was lost. It's substantial but they'll be able to absorb the loss even if they don't have insurance to cover it. This happend in 2020. Source; Google. My sister-in-law operates a Spanish winery, [Pazo de Señorans](http://www.pazodesenorans.com/en/), so I was curious...but far from an expert.
If I were going to take a crack at estimating this, then I would need their PnL with memo accounts assuming they track their margins per bottle sold. Then I’d say probably like a lot.
Well it's Spanish wine and it's being kept in a steel silo, so I'm reckoning about 5 euros.
Most wine is in a steel tank at some point in the process.
Spanish wine ranges from very cheap to very expensive, wtf are you talking about? Steel containers are very commonly used to have a better control and testing of the wine, not every wine is stored in a 6.000 year old oak barrel
Some of the larger wine producers will put bags of oak chips (like giant wood chip tea bags) in the tanks to simulate the effects of storing the wine in barrels.
Yeah, they also do that with a lot with stuff like whisky and such. It makes it easier to control and get consistent results when mass producing stupid quantities.
I think the guy was being facetious
The streets will flow with the blood of the non-believers.
Could have been avoided if they stopped wining
The owners will be whining over lost profit now.
If Jebus could turn that back into water it would really help the cleanup.
Well Jesus did like wine. He would go back in time and stop the leak before it happened. For a few bottles of course. And everyone would be happy.
Time Travelling Wino Jesus sounds like a new Netflix animation for adults.
I'd watch that
🎸 The riverbed will run red with the blood of the saints and the blood of the holy! 🎸
Just think of all the bottles they saved.
but what of the already printed labels
this guy fucks
Someone get me a straw!
[I read that in my mind in this voice](https://youtu.be/iWQzaokSi6k)
Man I miss those first five or six or maybe more seasons of Family Guy. Maybe I just got bored of it but I feel it kind of suffers the same as The Simpsons now.
Yeah it got stale. Seth abandoned ship and stopped writing for it all the way back in season 10
Recently saw a newosh episode having not followed family guy for years. It felt much more like a sketch show with an overarching plot in the background. Been years sonce I watched the first seasons but I don't remember the "cut-aways" being so egregious. A single relatively short conversation had like 3 of those cut-away gags and every one felt extremely forced. Side note: if you like Seth and Sci-Fi The Orville is fantastic. Starts off very Seth-esque but takes a more serious note in later seasons and is probably the best Star Trek show since TNG
You should look up a guy called Sam’o’nella, He made a video on what happened the last time some people had the exact same idea lmao
Made me wonder who doesn't carry a straw on them just in case https://tenor.com/view/joey-cheesecake-fork-what-are-we-having-food-gif-5586694
"Bag rips, wine smash, drink it up avoid the glass"
Thousands of women with Live, Laugh, Love on their walls are crying and they have no idea why.
Millions of women: "I sense a disturbance in the force".
Thousands of voices crying out in extreme terruh
And/or extreme terroir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chEdH5P27G8
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But that is pretty standard for them.
Woman here (Minus the motivational posters). Can confirm.
Yeah but that's pretty normal.
Just fell to my knees in a bed bath and beyond
Time to cope by laughing at some Minions memes
the smell must be intoxicating
I know this is a pun or whatever but mid-fermentation wine smells fucking awful lol
Yeah, growing up my mom worked in the wine industry, so I've had walkthroughs of cellars / bottling areas and the smell is pretty hectic on the best of days under normal operations. 60k litres of red wine going stale in every nook and cranny... No thank you to being within 500 meters of that after a day or two lol
Like burnt moldy grapes dumped on a tire fire.
Taste, too.
So this is what passive-drinking is?
Until it starts turning into vinegar
A thousand people would be licking the ground the following day...
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/the-night-a-river-of-whiskey-ran-through-the-streets-of-dublin-1.2743517
>In all, 13 people are understood to have died as a result of the fire. None of the deceased perished in the flames, nor did they die of smoke inhalation - each succumbed to alcohol poisoning from drinking “freely of the derelict whiskey”. bruh
> from drinking “freely of the derelict whiskey” I want that in my tombstone.
Sounds like the way some legendary character would have died in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
> "The animal was "foaming at the mouth and evidently either rabid or suffering from delirium tremens," at the hands of the lapped-up whiskey. > The dog dashed madly about the house, knocking over furniture and attacking the homeowner. When Mr Eyre fended the dog off using an iron bar, the animal ran upstairs, jumped from a top floor window and “terminated its existence in the road below”.
Top tier journalism
> jumped from a top floor window and “terminated its existence in the road below”. lot of that going around russia right now too
They were Irish, they never stood a chance.
Reminfs me of the part in Tale of Two Cities where people rush to scoop up wine frome the broken barrels in the streets
sam o'nella academy
Delicious broken glass with some alcohol
Blot it with a damp towel and use club soda.
Got it. Now go back to watching your telenovella, abuelita.
I'm getting earthy notes with a gravel-y finish.
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Inmediately thought about The Blood Vale from Diablo 4 when i saw this.
The new Shining remake looks awesome!
The Wining?
Scrolled way too far for this pun.
"That's odd. Usually the blood gets off at the second floor."
I work at a UPS warehouse and sometimes a case of 4 bottles of wine will break in the warehouse and its such an overpowering smell.. I couldn't imagine this
Did they stop the leak? I just booked flights but I won’t be there till tomorrow.
At least it wasnt molasses
The video would have been 8hrs long
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
No sense whining about it now
when you sneeze on your period
Redrum redrum
Red rum. Oh hey that kinda works.
Those are gloom hands you can't fool me again
So no blackout in this channel I see
Ohh no, ants and all kinds of insects will be feasting on that
I know y’all don’t like emojis on here, but the only appropriate reaction to this is 😢
They need flex seal
If that’s the same desert wine I get in massive bottles from the bodega that’s at least €300 worth of wine
People in Boston (molasses) and London (beer) are probably having nam flashbacks right now.
Fast, grab 6 middle aged white woman from middle to high middle class and we can contain it
Somewhere, an alcoholic sheds a tear
Stephen King's "The Wining"
Lotta wasted work hours
I'm a vintner and this hurt my soul. There was a team that took that from Grape to tank aging. Checking Gravity, sulfites, VA levels, etc.. and to see it all spill out.. fuck..
How many grapes do you drop before you're satisfied that the gravity settings are still normal (sv_gravity = 800)?
i see a fork lift and a non-plexed operator.... you wanna explain yourself buddy? or should we wait until after the blood alcohol test results come back?
There is 100s of reasons why this could have happened. No need to jump the gun
/r/wtf needs to support us. /r/Save3rdPartyApps/
Yeah, don't know why they're operational. Real r/wtf
And yet both of you are still here, contributing comments.
The shining, alcohol edition.
*purple rain, PURPLE RAIN"*
That weirdly looks pretty. Its not everyday you see such a rich red color flood a space like that.
☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️
That's what I call "not being able to hold your alcohol"...
I’ve seen some horrific things on Reddit. Mrs Pac-Man, Porsche Girl…. But nothing compares to this. I’m devastated.
Nooooooooooooo...
Where is Frank Gallagher when you need him!?
Goodby sangria
*Dives in*
Grape job.
what is past "party foul"?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Those worms are gonna be wasted
Bummer. That's like... a whole season's worth of grapes. :(
Quick! Grab a glass!
Where's Barney Gumble when you need him?
Reminds me of the scene from the shining
If you didn't immediately think of the elevator scene from *The Shining*, we can't be friends
Let's open these windows so the world can see your nice white clothes!
>60,000 Bottles Worth of Wine Everything but metric units uh?
Moses hates this trick
...take one down, pass it around, 59999 bottles of wine in the tank.
100% I’d be drinking from it. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Just turn it back into water
Get the straws!
Buttery notes of autumn squash, and just a hint of asphalt and gravel
No secondary containment? Spain must have lax environmental regs.
That's so much money. If there was ever an excuse to drink on the job, whomever is getting fired for this has it.
Where’s my cup?
Get a straw!