I am glad this happened last year on December 31st, 2011. It was a great way to finish the year. So picture this: A really busy tasting at Teller Wines. We are tasting some great bottles like Mollydooker Enchanted Path and Ampelidae Armance B and a few pedestrian wines like the 2003 Silver Oak Napa. I brought out a bottle of the 2009 Mollydooker Velvet Glove to taste. About 20 people had small tastes - now remember it was busy and I had just finished telling the Velvet Glove story about the smashed wine:

"All but one case of the bottles, worth over AUS$1m, fell 20 feet onto the Adelaide Wharf as it was being loaded onto a ship headed for America last Thursday." - Decanter.com July 2011

Just as I had finished telling the story, the bottle of Velvet Glove leaped off the tasting bar (really my elbow hit it) and smashing into 1,000 little pieces of glass swimming in a small reddish deep purple pond of wine. It was spectacular and the timing could not have been better. I was sad and distracted for a few minutes and then I just said, "C'est la vie".

The wine was delicious.