Funniest Wine Calamities of 2010

[tonyt]

The recent post about Wine Volcanoes inspired me to start a thread on the Funniest Wine Calamities of 2010.

So since I live in coastal Texas with no basement and haven't coughed up for a 300 or 400 bottle wine cabinet, I keep bottled batches of wine in a couple of those 40 bottle mini cellars, in boxes or wherever I can find free space. I had one mini cellar so over loaded that when I went to get a bottle out for sampling one by one bottles begin sliding out and on to the Mexican tile floor. As each bottle (almost in slow motion) hits the tile it bounces, flips, and rolls off. With one bottle in my hand (the one I wanted in the first place) I was frantically trying to stop more from sliding out and trying to round up ones that were bouncing around. I was screaming expletives left and right while laughing my *** off at the spectacle. Wife comes running in from the other room to find me sitting on the floor surrounded by 8 or 9 bottles of wine and a lone broken bottle in my hand. Believe it or not the only bottle that broke was the initial bottle I went for, still in my hand but now empty. If there is a moral here somewhere, I don't know where.

 

[AlFulchino]

thats a good one!

my funniest moment was walking into the winery two hours after racking a peach wine into a 70 gallon tank...and I KNEW i shouldnt have but i was very pressed for space on the crush pad and primary fermenter area......the airlock had flown to the ceiling....peach splattered over the walls and their is NOTHING worse than peach splatter......thetank itself was just oozing and ALL OVER the floor....took me two hours....all because i was to cheap to have more tanks on hand

 

[Runningwolf]

My funniest moment was when I tried to put an airlock on my jalapeno wine after several days of fermentation. It kept blowing the cap off of the air lock making a big bang at the same time. I guess I was pretty lucky compared to folks who had wine hittingthe ceiling. The second one was while bottling my Chenin Blanc and tasting a good hint of jalapeno. Oops I didn't clean the primary out as good as I thought I did. Now a couple months later my wife opened a bottle and says, "I don't remember this wine having a peppery taste before". After laughing my a** off I finally confessed.

 

[AlFulchino]

gee...only three stories that can only mean everyone is Christmas shopping

 

[Wade E]

Well Im sure ya'll remember this one. This is a pic of degassing a batch of wine that was just absolutely loaded with C02and I actually already left out about 3/4 of a gallon an d thought there was plenty of room so didnt take the usual precaution and start slowly.

Another was when I walked into my wine cellar as got hit y a very fine stream like a pin pricks worth. I went in there because my wife said it smelled funny. For the life of me I couldnt figure out where it was coming from as it was like invisible to the eye. I had a pce of paper in my pocket so pulled it out and held it up until the stream it and followed it back until I found a bottle with a shrink capsule being stretched. A whole batch of plum wine had re fermented and was actually blowing corks(and one bottle). I really didnt otice the one bottle that had already broke as it blew the back right off bet left the rest in tact stillon the shelf perfectly for display purposes. Had to uncork and re stabilize and then sweeten again.

 

[grapeman]

I have had a lot of fun over the years with making this stuff we call wine and have had a few funny moments here and there. One of those came just today. It was our year end Thursday Farmer's Market and I was sampling wines I had for sale as usual. We all know everybodies tastes are different and one man's sweet is another womans sour. One of my red offerings was sold out but I had some of the sample bottle left. One of the other vendors came over and asked for a sample of the sweetest wine I had. I poured her a sample and she puckered up and sad Oh My God this is sour! Another person that had tried them said- That one is so sweet it is like a dessert wine. He said maybe you just think it is sour. Try some of this red- it is the smoothest red I have had yet from NY. I poured her the normal sample and she put it to her mouth and drank up tentatively. As she ran away she was flailing her arms screaming "Oh MY God" OH my God". I told her I wished I had a video of her doing it, but it really wasn't very good advertising at the market!


If you can't tell, we have a blast at the market, especially towards the end of it.

 

[Waldo]

I guess one of my funnier ones was with a Blueberry. I had racked from primary to glass, putairlock in and off to work I went. Aroundlunch time I was off to meet Kat for lunch when she called and rather excitedly informed me my Blueberry had blown its airlock out and was foaming out of the carboy madly. She asked me what should she do and my instant respones was........DRINK IT !!!