Thousands of Wine Bottles Evacuated, Due to 'Irma'

Hurricane Irma has disrupted logistical routes from 20,000 bottles of wine, as happened in Cuba and around Florida

The Wine, illustration - Image credit Mick Stephenson

Hurricane Irma is troubling many parties in the affected area, you certainly know the arrival of Hurricane Irma a few days ago. It has been reported previously that Irma storms pass in northern Puerto Rico on Wednesday, September 6, and is expected to pass through the waters of the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Thursday, September 7, and so on into Florida, USA.

You surely know that besides bringing the victims of the settlement community, there are also problems occurring in the path that it passes, including Cuba and Florida. Even so in Florida, Irma's storm did not make people around to panic and must be evacuated.

But. As reported on CNN Indonesia, today, a panicked citizen will be a collection of expensive wine, he asked the rescue service to evacuate his wine.

Last Thursday, more than 20 thousand bottles of rare wine were evacuated from a home in Florida and Louisiana, citing Reuters from the Daily Meal, as some very old bottles are known, some even over 100 years old, expensive, all these bottles are equivalent to price of US $ 5 million.

Of course, many steps taken to evacuate the wine, the transfer from the location that is expected to be the path of a storm to a safe place and has a maintained temperature.

Activities for displacement are carried out by resettlement agencies, such as emergency rescue services, but specialty wines, Xpeditr. This was stated by CEO Adam Gungle, that the emergency services have been established since 2012, after Sandy's storm destroyed some very rare collections of wine.

"Storms can damage 'pieces of history' in wine."

Anyone will admit, any major storm has the potential to damage the storage of wine, because the temperature regulator will lose power. In extreme situations even flooding will make water into the bottle through a stopper or label on the bottle.

You can imagine how high-priced wines, some bottles of wine are estimated to cost about US $ 100 thousand, many wine owners who do not hesitate to think and save their wine first when the threat of a storm appeared.

Of course all the rescue activities were an worthy activity of being implemented, he said.

"Hurricane Andrew, Katrina, Sandy destroyed tens of millions of dollars of wine, many of these bottles of wine have survived since World War I and II."

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Source: C Andhika Setyanti - CNN Indonesia, Daily Meal, Reuters
Image: Mick Stephenson via Wikipedia