The $1½M hiss
In a special coolroom of the winery of Morton Estate; just north-west of Tauranga, stand two carefully built-up stacks of bottles of wine that are lovingly developed by the method champenoise.
The total value of the wine in the two stacks, "on the hoof” as it were, is $1.5 million.
During last week’s
earthquake the stacks began to sway gently, and the winery staff died a thousand deaths as they were visualising a $1.5 million heap of broken glass.
When the stacks held and settled down to normal, the hiss of the escaping breath that had been held during, the shake could be heard 20 miles away, according to the chief wine maker, Mr John Hancock.
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Press, 9 March 1987, Page 14
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