Red wine flooded the streets of Portugal as 600,000 gallons of red wine streamed down a road in Portugal's São Lourenço do Bairro on September 10 after a local distillery’s tanks burst. The Portugal town was flooded by nearly 3 million bottles worth of red wine. Local media estimated the flood to be about 2.2 million liters — enough wine to fill approximately 2,933,333 wine bottles.
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One tank collapsed because of a “structural failure" at the distillery, Destilaria Levira, in the Portuguese municipality of Anadia, about 140 miles north of Lisbon. The sheer force of the released wine knocked over another tank, causing the wine from both tanks to flow out of the distillery and into the streets.
The tanks that collapsed were part of an effort to address a broader problem: too much wine in Europe. The tanks were being used to store surplus wine, according to the distillery.
Portugal and other major European wine producers such as France and Italy are suffering from an oversupply of wine, largely because of a decline in both consumption and exports. The European Commission estimated a drop of 34 percent in wine consumption in Portugal this year largely due to inflation. At the same time, the production of wine in Europe has increased while wine exports from the European Union have declined. In the first quarter of this year, exports were about 8.5 percent lower than they were in 2022.
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