This is what was supposed to be a glass of 2006 Chateau Margaux at a restaurant in Vegas that the Corovin "rejected."
Thankfully there was still a glass left after 2/3 of the bottle spilled all over me and the counter.
I may never wash that shirt again. 🤣
by Longhornmaniac8
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Well, a bottle of 1994 monte Bello rolled off my wine fridge rack and smashed into the floor. I feel the pain
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When I finished my residency my program director gave me a 2020 bottle of caymus Zinfandel. Still have it because it makes me laugh.
A spilled glass of 1834 Madeira.
I poured an entire glass of wine on my dates dress at a winery. Was also good wine, but man was that embarrassing.
omg i’d literally never wash that shirt again, it’s like a badge of honor at this point lol. expensive perfume has nothing on margaux spill vibes.
I’m convinced that if you truly love wine, no amount of wealth will ever prevent a heart from shattering seeing first growths die on a countertop
$1,000 suit worn for the first time ruined by someone stumbling backwards into me holding a glass of red wine. Before you ask….the wine was free (private function) and was rubbish.
A few years ago I worked harvest at Marcassin. One day we had to organize the bottle library, which was back vintages of Marcassin and bottles from around the world they considered comparable. As I was moving boxes a bottle rolled off a shelf and fell a foot to the concrete floor, but miraculously didn’t break. The bottle was a 2014 La Tache.
is “rejected” what happens when you overpressurize the bottle and cause the cork to pop out?
When I was first starting off as a rep I worked with Louis Latour. We had a smattering of affordable options, almost no mid-tier offerings and then a bottle of Corton Charlemagne (I was in a starter territory and most of my buyers at the time were not serious so they didn’t want too much high end, but one customer wanted to try it). I wound up with half a bottle leftover at the end of the day of Corton Charlemagne and the supplier told me I could take the open wines home to enjoy. I packed my bag after the last appointment and walked to my car, popping the bag up a curb as I went. Got to my car and went to load everything and noticed my bag was leaking. Every single bottle was completely intact except the Corton Charlemagne which shattered due to popping the bag up the curb. Still haunts me to this day. The goddamn Macon wines couldn’t have broken????
2010 E Guigal Cote Rotie La Mouline slipped out of my hand while decanting.
Licked it off the floor for awhile.
Dropped a bottle of Chateau Clerc Milon once—my garage (where the wine fridge is) smelled of black cherries and graphite, which just made it all sadder…
In my late 20s, I climbed to the very top of the largest pyramid in Mexico, I was up there by myself until someone came up the other side. I did a double take, it was my middle school best friend who had moved away the following year right before high school.
I wish i could remember what exact bottle it was but about 20 years ago i received a gifted bottle that was appx. $80 which was a lot of money for a bottle back then….to me anyway. It was a Cali cab. I was moving out of my house and took it out of the wine fridge that i had been aging it in for 3+ years to carry it to my car. Somehow i dropped it and watched all the juice run down my driveway. I wanted to cry.
I proposed to my fiancée (now wife) and took her out to a fancy dinner to celebrate. I ordered us a bottle of wine and proceeded to dump my entire glass all over the table. This was a “new age” fancy place where they had some sort of paper on the table as a tablecloth. The hostess had a “Congratulations on your engagement!” message on the table when we got there and we had hoped to maybe keep it for nostalgic purposes. We definitely weren’t going to take it after I dumped wine on it.
For anyone curious, the restaurant was Duck City Bistro in Davenport, IA.
The table has already tasted it for you.
I broke a Riedel over all the food just after we got a late. We got to eat but there were NO seconds.
I can’t remember the specific wine, but it was back in 2002-2005 and the bottle was one of the Rosemount $25-35 shirazes that were highly rated and good. I was a broke ass college student that had enough left after buying groceries to add that to my shopping. I’d had it before, it was the last bottle on the shelf at the store, and I was excited to open it with my girlfriend. The plastic grocery bags, yeah I double bagged the bottle by itself to protect it, ripped and it landed on the parking lot and shattered. High to low in less than a second.
I placed a bottle of 2009 Angelus on a set of boxes only for it to tip over and bounce off the concrete about 2 or 3 times before it shattered and sliced my finger in the process of trying to save it.
I was visiting the duro river valley in Portugal with my family. We had a flight tasting of 6 incredible wines/ports at the vineyard. And my dad spilled the tawny 40 year on me, which was supposed to be the oldest and best one in the flight.
He still rejects blame to this day. But I’m telling ya, he jostled the paper the wines sat on lol
For me, it’s the time while uncorking a 2018 Cab-Sav, I can’t remember who the winemaker was, when the cork broke in half. Ended up with the top half on the corkscrew and the bottom half still stuck in the bottle, I couldn’t do that again if I tried. Massive pain in the backside to actually get the cork out and by the time I had I didn’t much feel like drinking anymore. Edit: now that I think about it getting back from a cricket trip to find half my collection time missing might be worse, my brother‘s girlfriend had been helping herself apparently and I never could get any money out of them for the bottle she drank.
Dropped and shattered a half-bottle of 1964 Haut Brion. Licked a bit of it up. It tasted dusty. 😜
Get a straw…. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I worked at a place that had just finished a remodel(added a large private dining room and bar). Everything was white, ceiling down to carpet(I know right?) First event was with a rep who was kind of new to wine. She had 15 or so bottles opened on a side table and got pretty intoxicated. She swayed until she fell, right onto the table of wine. Knocked every single bottle over(with the table) and stained the brand new white carpet with it.
I know not as heavy as these other posts, but I just lost my zalto burgundy glass today. I got a dish washer last night, and put it in the “wine holder” clip and it snapped. I am sad as this had sentimental value as it was when I got serious about wine.
In my area of the wine industry we all have that first breaker that “breaks us in,” and mine was a 6-pack of 1996 Drouhin Clos des Mouches Blanc. I had just photographed the lot and went to rack it, set it down a little harshly and that was all it took – I watched the stream of Chardonnay just burst out like a failed dam. Stood there stunned. In the end only 2 magnums had broken, but not a fun email to send my boss. 🫣
It was probably Yellowtail and I was probably holding the glass like a fool, but a glass exploded in my hand at a house party.
I may or may not be the Magneto of glass is what I’m saying. None will bow before me
40 minutes into an 8 hour flight my wife knocked her glass of wine (accidentally) into my glass of wine and they both soaked my clothes from my shoulder to my waist. Soaked in cheap airline wine for 7+ hours was not fun. Of course I had to go through customs/immigration with a big smelly purple stain down my front and couldn’t change until we checked in at the hotel.
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No wine was lost but a funny, wine / glass / ER story. Late one evening I was asked to sabre some champagne, any excuse, right? The next morning my wife put the sabre’d bottle in the recycling and then proceeded to cut her thumb. It was bad enough to need stitches so she went to ER, at 8am Sunday morning. Nurse: how did you do this? On a bottle of Champagne. Nurse: oh…. She came back 30 minutes later with some AA material and started to give my wife a lecture on alcohol. My wife started giggling. I’m not allowed to sabre bottles anymore.
In my best Kirk Douglas voice.
The blood of the earth! Spilled!
May Dionysus forgive you.