July 2011
A dodgy forklift truck has malfunctioned and dropped 462 cases of Australian wine worth more than £650,000.
The error happened as the Mollydooker wine was being loaded for shipment to the USA at Port Adelaide and the bottles all fell almost 20 feet to ground.
As such it's thought 5,544 bottles of 2010 Velvet Glove shiraz (worth £120 each) were destroyed when the bottles smashed and poured their contents on the ground.
Winemaker Sparky Marquis said the incident had left him "gut-wrenched" and that the container was left looking" like a murder scene.
