Western Cape Farm Loses 50 000 Litres of Red Wine as Tank Collapses
- A Western Cape farm, Darling Cellars, has lost 50 000 litres of red wine after one of its tanks collapsed
- Footage shared by Darling Cellars shows the river of red wine flowing on the farmland
- Social media users and wine lovers swiftly headed online where they made hilarious comments about the catastrophe
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Darling Cellars, a Western Cape wine farm, unfortunately recently suffered a huge loss after a tank holding a whopping 50 000 litres of red wine collapsed and created a big stream of red wine on the property.
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Footage shared online by social media users shows wine still flowing from the broken tank. In the clip, one can see that the flow was so powerful that the wall in which the tank was being kept had been blasted open.
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"River of red wine... I cannot watch this without thinking how I would have reacted being there. Darling Cellars lost 50 000 litres of red wine... Depends on the size of your glass, that is about 1 000 glasses of wine!" Yolanda Bester captioned a clip of the mess.
Meanwhile, other locals have had this to say:
Fanie Kotze said:
"That's heartbreaking, now I have an endless thirst."
Bruce Murray said:
"I’d give my eye teeth for a 50-litre glass."
Jaco Botha said:
"What a heartbreaking moment."
@Dustuhan said:
"I would have filled my glass."
@andyCatHB said:
"Probably have outstanding flowers in that area come September."
@coopey said:
"Oh no, that sight would make any alcoholic cry."
In other Briefly News reports, some of us can only dream of trying different sorts of wines and promoting them on social media while getting paid to do so. An old lady recently had this become her reality after she started a job search.
According to reports, 101-year-old Maria Cardoso wanted a job so that she did not have to rely on her daughter for cash to buy some of her favourite treats. After nagging her children, they jokingly uploaded her CV on social media and surprise surprise, she was offered a job a wine company looking for promoters.
Now a very content Maria spends a lot of her time in front of a camera trying out wines and sending the clips to the wine company for them to post on their social media pages.
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