Two million bottles is an awful lot to be ruined in a fire

[AlexR]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... deaux.html

Alex R.

[DavidG]

Two million bottles valued at ten million pounds.
Couldn't have been high end stuff.
Still, a major loss.

[AlexR]

Like the Notre Dame fire, there will be more details as time goes on.

Alex

[AKR]

Well that's one way to get rid of the oversupply

[Tom In DC]

Well that's one way to get rid of the oversupply

First thing I thought as well.

[DavidG]

A better payout from insurance than from trying to sell it?

[AKR]

Maybe they just want to get out of the whole business - inventory, distribution, warehouse property etc.

I can't imagine that being a middleman in a commodity biz (low end wine) is such a lush enterprise.