Forklift Drops $1M Worth of Red Wine

There's no use crying over spilled milk, but spilled wine? That's another story. Especially when it's $1 million worth. An unsteady forklift dropped a container full of fine Australian wine, smashing most of the bottles. Sparky Marquis of Mollydooker Wines tells the AP that when workers opened up the dropped container, "it was like a murder scene. There was red everywhere."

The winemaker is "gut-wrenched, shocked and numb" after losing a third of his Velvet Glove Shiraz production. The accident demolished all but one of the 462 cases bound for the United States—and each bottle sells for $200. On the upside, the wine was fully insured; on the downside, the accident has crippled Mollydooker's US launch in September, and will reportedly impact the wine market in Australia. (More Australia stories.)