Forklift Smashes $1 Million Worth Of Wine

ADELAIDE, Australia -- An unsteady forklift dropped a container full 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 Friday that when workers opened up the dropped container, "it was like a murder scene. There was red everywhere."

He said the wine was fully insured.

The accident has crippled Mollydooker's U.S. launch in September. It will also impact the wine market in Australia.

Comments

[mrwine16]

11:03 AM on 08/06/2011

publicity stunt to the max!!

[slejames]

03:50 PM on 07/25/2011

Oh no :-(

[DanoX]

05:39 AM on 07/25/2011

Ha ha! Lost all his over priced grape juice!

[Kellie Kensington]

09:24 PM on 07/24/2011

It's gonna be a bummer if that's taken from his paycheck.... He's gonna have to join SimpleStockCash on the web to have ANY chance of paying it off :(

[BoscoTheTerrible]

10:11 AM on 07/24/2011

I can't tell expensive wine from cheap wine. It all tastes like wine. In fact, some of the cheap wine tastes better.

[ProudMilVet]

05:40 AM on 07/24/2011

I wonder if the forklift operator still has a job ?

[lhanderson86]

12:31 AM on 07/24/2011

Or you could get 100 bottles of Two Buck Chuck.

[asmir]

10:28 PM on 07/23/2011

462 cases bound for the United States. Each bottle of the Mollydooker wine sells for $200.

I'd rather drink "Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill" @ $4.00 a bottle!

[calloy]

09:15 PM on 07/23/2011

i wonder if paul ryan cried when he heard about this? i know john boehner did.

[weebles48]

08:51 PM on 07/23/2011

oops.

[David Michael Wise]

08:31 PM on 07/23/2011

First world problems. I love it.

[LeftRight]

06:48 PM on 07/23/2011

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Well hopefully this won't raise the price of box wine....

[Red Russet]

05:49 PM on 07/23/2011

Sparky should do an alcohol screen on his forklift guys before turning them loose.

[tnlcallen]

05:00 PM on 07/23/2011

If you are paying $200 for a bottle of Wine, you are doing it wrong. May I suggest a fine wine from the Boones farm winery. Vintage 2011

[Itzamirakul]

07:04 PM on 07/23/2011

Me too!!! Me Too!!! My Gosh, I fell in love with Boone's Farm Apple Wine when I was in college ca 1960 and I love it still although it is darned near impossible for me to find in NYC. People look at me like I'm crazy when I get up the nerve to ask at the winery or even the large grocery stores for it. I might get the nerve once or twice a year and I haven't found any for the last three years.

Sure, I enjoy fine wines also, but I still love Boone's Farm!

[weebles48]

08:52 PM on 07/23/2011

i love pop wines. they are good with a little lemon lime soda or ginger ale.

[STParker]

04:18 PM on 07/23/2011

On the plus side the accompanying photograph is amazing, like a beautiful abstract work of art.