![]() ![]() "It was a total loss-a real catastrophe," Isabelle Auzely, communications manager for Vignobles Clement Fayat, told Unfiltered. But a spokesperson for La Dominique told Unfiltered that the wine is a complete write-off: All 18,000 bottles suffered either breakage, damage or such a severe “shock” as to be unsellable. Luckily, the truck driver experienced only deep mortification. Seconds later, the truck overturned, spilling its load of the 2011 vintage of Relais de la Dominique, the estate’s second wine. ![]() On Tuesday morning, a truck carrying 18,000 bottles from the cellars of St.-Emilion Grand Cru Classé Château La Dominique veered into a roundabout near the village, and missed the curve. Bordeaux Roadkill: 18,000 Bottles of St.-Emilion Smashedīordeaux's wine routes flow with wine, this week literally. Get your popcorn ready, and enjoy this year's best of Unfiltered!ġ. Oh, right-that's what the rest of is for. Maybe in 2015 we'll all finally get some culture. And there were plenty of beautiful women, in addition to those who cracked the Top 10 below, from last week's Austrian vintners lingerie calendar to the models of New York Fashion Week to the Bachelorette to film-and-wine royalty Gia Coppola. The 1,500-case calamity on the Bordeaux wine route topped 2014's Unfiltered columns, and Pennsylvania's exploding Prosecco recall and Temecula's exploding winery raised eyebrows, as did a giant boulder that tore through an Italian vineyard. Of course, we're not ones to throw stones, surrounded as we are by all these glass bottles, and we love bringing you all the low-brow news the wine world has to offer. It's enough to make us wonder if all of you are even old enough to be reading this website …. Just check out the sidebar of past Best of Unfiltered lists if you don't believe us. ![]() Once again, the most popular items to run in Unfiltered this year featured beautiful people (with a heavy skew toward the fairer sex) and things breaking. We hate to break it to you, dear weekly readers of Unfiltered, but you're a predictable lot. ![]()
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