http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14247551
More than A$1m ($1.07m; £664,000) of wine has been destroyed in a forklift accident in Australia.
The 2010 Mollydooker Velvet Glove shiraz sells for A$185 a bottle ($199; £122), the AFP news agency said.
Winemaker Sparky Marquis told reporters he was "gut-wrenched" that 462 cases of wine had been smashed while being loaded for export to the United States.
"When they opened up the container they said it was like a murder scene," he said. "But it smelled phenomenal."
'Massive loss'
Mr Marquis told the AAP news agency the shipment represented one-third of his McLaren Vale winery's annual production.
"It's a massive loss. We're going through all of the 462 cases at the moment just to see what we can save out of it."
The wine was, however, fully insured.
Agence France-Presse said Kerry Logistics, which was handling the shipment, moves more than 20,000 containers a year.
Spokesman Brett McCarthur said the company had never had a malfunction of that type before.
"It was very hard to make that call to Sparky," he said.
Comments
because charging ~$200 for a bottle of wine wasn't making him enough money
Anyway, unless it came with a free hooker, I don't think I would ever pay that much for wine. Wine snobs piss me off. "delicate hints of peach and maple, with a solid finish, and an aftertaste of spider farts and fresh biscuits", bullcrap, drink it, like it or don't, shut up.
C/O
"don't ask me how I know what a spider fart tastes like, it was just one of those parties"