In the Chinese restaurant Angel Wang Fu in Lustenau (A), which is extremely popular with eastern Swiss, the fire brigade was called on Thursday. The probably largest wine bottle in the world made of glass, filled with 1590 liters of red wine, leaked, so that the wine started to leak on the bottom.
Passenger hands soldier wine bottle at full speed
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“We immediately started to build a barrier with sandbags and a wooden plate to prevent the wine from spreading over the entire restaurant area if the bottle broke,” she writes Lustenau fire department,
Wine not lost
The fire department then drilled a hole in the cork to suck off the wine and pump it into barrels. After a rough cleaning at the end of the mission, the six firefighters were able to return after a good two hours.
“The saved wine is now brought to the winemaker in Burgenland, where it is checked, bottled and used for a good cause,” says Jürgen Hämmerle, operations manager at the Lustenau fire department FM1Today,
(TAW)
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