Spilled wine
China Daily | Updated: 2010-03-06 08:00
NEW YORK - Some 125 million liters of Chilean wines worth roughly $250 million were spilled during the 8.8 magnitude earthquake last Saturday that killed more than 800 people and demolished cities and towns, a US importer said on Thursday.
"They estimated that they lost 12 percent of the 2009 vintage," which had been in now-overturned stainless steel vats, broken oak barrels and bottles, said Alfredo Bartholomaus, who represents several Chilean wineries for the US importer Winebow.
The biggest part of the loss was sustained by winemakers in the Colchagua, Curico and Maule valleys, Bartholomaus said.
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