One of the wine delivery companies near me has a big warning sign on the back “in case of accident bring cheese and crackers. Lots of cheese and crackers”. Seems applicable here.
When this happens, truthfully steer clear. Alcohol poisoning deaths have been attributed to similar incidents in the past. Even breathing it in closed spaces will fuck you up quick when there is this much of it.
I believe the version of the word you're looking for is "reek". Wreak is like when you wreak havoc which, funny enough, is also applicable here. Have a nice day!
Oh that literally gave me nightmares as a kid. Specifically chopping the boom over and over again, and with the water flooring. I genuinely think it contributed to this fear of large bodies of water I have now (or water in the dark).
I am such an "um actually" guy 😅. I was going to point out that distilleries don't make wine. But before I stuck my foot in my mouth I decided to do some research. The wine here was going towards making brandy. They bought a whole bunch of surplus because people weren't drinking as much as usual after covid.
So instead of that smug know it all post I decided to type this up and point out how dumb I am.
It’s kinda the determining factor between being stupid and smart isn’t it?
The drive to know that something is correct and to confirm it. If you have that then you won’t be stupid for long (unless you are mentally limited for some reason).
The actual answer is bad video compression because this video has likely been repurposed enough times that the original compressed video is compressed over and over in other formats.
It's a huge organic load - there are regulations where I live around discharging winery waste water (from cleaning), I can't imagine the stress this places on waterways, stormwater, etc
Once in high school I was in a grocery store in LA when an earthquake hit. When the shaking stopped we were walking past the wine aisle (bottles had fallen and broken/spilled everywhere) and an employee shouted, “grab the straws!” This is what this reminds me of haha
"Alcohol flowed freely in the Portuguese town of Levira over the weekend, after two vats holding about 2.2m litres of wine at a local distillery burst and flooded the streets.
Images and videos posted online showed red wine – almost enough to fill an Olympic size swimming pool – gushing down the streets of Levira in Anadia, central Portugal."
2.2 million liters . Wow. How did i not hear about that?
I just got a brief overview of the potential effects.
Luckily, in this incident, it looks like they managed to scoop up enough wine that it didn’t really have the extreme damage it could’ve especially because they diverted it successfully away from the river.
The main concern apparently is it getting into the water supply and causing oxygen depletion. The wine flowing into the river would’ve resulted in massive amounts of bacteria and it would’ve choked out the waterways.
The alcohol toxicity would’ve resulted in plant death to anything it touched as well as essentially sanitizing the soil of all of the bacteria. Bacteria is a big part of plant cycle. I am an organic farmer and I literally tell people, “Rather than growing plants, I instead focus on growing bacteria. So a lot of my educational background for my job is in microbiology.”
The acidity would’ve severely affected the soil and the water it contaminated as well.
Groundwater potability could’ve become a concern, depending on how quickly it moves into the aquifer as well as the volume.
In this 2023 incident, it looks like they mitigated a great portion of the potential damage because they removed pools of wine as best they could, diverted the path away from main waterways, and dredge the ground to try to remove as much contaminated soil as possible to lessen the impact on groundwater. There’s apparently no lasting damage.
Well, Brandy is made by distilling wine, so there is definitely a reason to have wine at a distillery.
Edit: title says it’s in Portugal. That would likely make the brandy being made from this wine Aguardente Vinica, assuming that’s what the wine was going to be used for. The guardian article says it’s being stored due to low demand, but it repeatedly uses the term distillery, which would not be correct if wine is being made there. The proper term would be winery.
The surplus of wine that year made it a good starting material to distil into alcohol. It can then be made into a wide variety of drinks. Brandy, Cognac would be obvious choices, but if you continue to purify it you get neutral ethyl alcohol which can be used in vodka, gin, liqueurs, fortified beverages etc.
I belive it was a translating error, in the portuguese news i remember hearing it was a winery, not a destilery. Edit, went back to hear the news again, it was indeed a destilery the ( Levira destilery ) the wine was suposed to be turned in " aguardente velha " a type of brandy
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This happened in Dublin in 1875, but with whiskey instead of wine. The whiskey was also on fire, and flooded many streets. 13 people died, all from alcohol poisoning from drinking too much of it.
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One of the wine delivery companies near me has a big warning sign on the back “in case of accident bring cheese and crackers. Lots of cheese and crackers”. Seems applicable here.