We FOUND the Hidden Wine Cellar, Unopened for 20 Years...1,000 Bottles of Wine!!!
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2023
- Thanks so much for all the love and support guys!!! Grab a shirt/hoodie/patch and join the Demolitia today!!! www.bunkerbranding.com/pages/...
Try out our custom athletic line!!! Be careful that you don't get too attractive tho. lincactive.com/
Follow me on IG and twitter!
/ drdemolitionmatt
/ demolitionranch 
Развлечения
If only there was a wine RUclipsr that was very close to you that could review those bottles with you. Let me know if you want help.
That would be a great collab!
Keep pushing this for Matt!
Would love to see this video!
WINE ON THE DIME, MATT! WINE ON THE DIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here for the algorithm
As a wine enthusiast I cried a little inside watching those corks being destroyed, you have some interesting bottles in there definitely worth a good second look and if you find they're all cooked you could always get a local distiller to distil the alcohol out of it then you could barrel it and age it on site and make some abandoned ranch whisky to serve when you finish the project
This, for sure.
I only came to the comments to se if at least one person had a great idea on salvaging it
Yes
in the next epizode of demolition ranch we shoot 100 botles of wine see wich bottle is bullet proof.
this should be the top comment
Well... Coming from two wine-producing families and environment, loving wine, and being particularly keen on old wines, I am pretty sure, 90% of that wine is good. I'm in Portugal, a wine producing country, and maybe you can tell, by the cork, if it still has structure, even only the bottom part, it will probably be good. Champagne also will be 99% good. And by the way, I saw Port wine (Vinho do Porto). That one should be good, and have a sweeter taste. And by the way, the red wine colour was on point. Almost all european/north African wines have a darker tone. Californian wines, and some from Peru, usually look lighter. I can come take a look if you want :D
I don't think so... it's like an oven in there
Portugal caralho!
Yeah but what if?
Yeah based on my lesser knowledge I too think it will be mostly good.
@@pb6839 Unfortunately, I might have to agree here. Light strike and heat damage are risks that can't be mitigated after opening the bottle.
Matt operating the reciprocating saw like a Backwoods hoodlum had me weak! 😂😂 My dad is a winemaker. He uses an air compressor and a needle to fill balls to push old corks out. Works perfectly every time. You can also put ice around the neck of the bottle with a wet towel and cut the bottle below the cork with bottle tongs heated with a torch or a charcoal fire.
GREAT GLASS SHARDS IN YOUR WINE.
The air compressor is a great idea!
@@rodobrien3488 Cut it, not smash it!
a backwoods hoodlum lmao
Or sabre it ⚔
If only you knew someone at a RUclips channel at which those bottles could be properly… demolished. 😈
If only he knew someone with some lockpicking skills
I see what you did there
I know it would have taken you 10 seconds to get through that crappy lock!
Hopefully you fixed that lock!
What’s up LPL!!! I think they needed one of your kits. Would have been a lot better than the sawzall…
The wine bottles on their sides are probably still good. You need to store wine on it's side so the wine is always in contact with the cork keeping the cork wet and prevent it from drying out and causing air and bacteria to get into the bottle. But you should probably contact an expert as I am not one!
Agreed. It's called Cork Rot. Anything laying on its side I would drink. Standing up and down its probably bad.
Those Paul Hobbs ones are going for $5-$600 lol.. he just got a decent percentage of his investment back if the wine is still good which like you said the ones on their side should be good to go
i was thinking the same. i dont know anything about wine but always heard that it needs to be stored on its side with the wine touching the cork.
Are screw caps okay upright? That's really good info I didn't know. Thank you!
@@krazzy6440I wouldn't let a screw cap sit too long as it doesn't make a perfect seal consistently over time.
Hey, Matt! While cork taint due to TCA can be a concern, your main conern with old bottles of wine is spoilage due to oxidation. That tawny color that you saw looks correct for aged wines, though! Red wines will lose color while white wines gain color. The information that Donut Operator searched is spot on, and it's worth noting that most wines produced for the market today are meant to be drunk young; in the United States, wine is consumed within the first eight hours of purchase! Hope y'all are able to pop some more corks with an Ah-So or something!
Be drunk young. Got it.
@@dennisyyyskfhdsgasdj you get it 😆😆 cheers bro
Its just tough to watch Matt use tools...bless his heart.
Gotta say, I cringed.
Especially with the kids right behind him! At least 5 adults are just sitting there watching him swing that blade around without a care in the world for the safety of the kids.
ego right there.. nut job skills
Don't be too harsh, those tools didn't have chambers and barrels, no wonder he's not used to them.
Looked like a wood blade lol
If you told Mere that you were buying an unopened wine cellar with 1000 bottles of wine, I think it would have been an easier sell when you told her about the abandoned resort attached to it.
LoL
Oh yeah, she'd be on board in a heartbeat.
😂👍
It's weird on one hand your saying the wine may have helped but on the other "you don't tell mere" no matter what it's the only rule other than gun safety we have. Very hard to decide the right move here lol
@@moodster55 This is Off The Ranch. Huge purchases, Mere gets told.
Demolition Ranch. Mere doesn't get told. (Yeah right)
Matt you need a wine professional to help you evaluate the wines and tell you what you have. Please such an interesting video!
Likely a vinegar expert!
Doesn't matter what he has, he said it was warm in there. Heat + wine = ruined.
@@AllTheBeef there could be some history to those wines. And a collector may still want the bottles.
I see some expensive or once expensive wine
@@UnBoundBeatz In the wine world, bottles only have value if they are drinkable. Plus most collectors want evidence that the wine was stored at exact temperatures and humidity before they even consider purchasing a wine.
This is actually one of the coolest finds on youtube. Of all the Abandoned videos on RUclips it seems like they rarely find anything of value
Every single one of those bottles is an adventure waiting to be shared with friends. I’d say you hit the jackpot!
Corked wine should be kept horizontal so that the cork doesnt dry out. Try the ones that were kept flat. Nice find btw.
Came to say this exactly!
Y'all beat me to it. I've been making wine for over 30 years. It's always stored flat and I never use imitation corks. Wine can survive and thrive hundreds of years with corks. Temperatures permitting at least.
Isn't that how they picked those bottles though? They were on the wire rack. Unless you mean cork facing to the roof?
But i perfer watching matt drag his family and friends into the kitchen to torture them by feeding the suspicious things
Matt said “There’s 1000 bottles of wine in there” ONE THOUSAND TIMES. I counted.
You have to cut the bottle under the cork, the really old bottles are opened that way. They put a heated steel ring on the neck and then cool it with cold water, then it break with a clean cut
This
Agreed
This.. an old bottle never opens with the cork
you have to strain it still to make sure you dont drink glass shards, glass shards are not good for you
I've been off line for three weeks and as I watched this video, I realised that your family has grown up so much. Addi, Annie and Linc seemed to just sprout. Three weeks is a long time eh. God bless...
Mr. Demo can we please have more abandoned resort videos? I am literally craving more!!
Hire a wine expert and make a vid, we want a proper breakdown on the loot!
I think that's the best course of action from this point is to hire a Sommelier to go through the vault, and tell them if any of it is good, or not, and what to do with it from there.
That would be really cool
Yes. I would imagine there are specialists who would jump at the chance to get in there first.
This 👍👍
it might cost more than a thousand bottles of ruined wine is worth ? 🥲 Unless they just want to do it for the youtube funsees hehe.
You can hot pop the bottle of wine when it is aged like that so you don’t get the cork in the wine. Hot poping can be done with a metal circle that is roughly 300 degrees held on the neck for a few seconds then adding cold water to the heated area.
Matt! Please read this guy's comment he's totally right!
You need to hot pop those bottles and bypass the cork completely. That's how they always open super old and super expensive wine.
or use port tongs.
Please remember to strain in case of glass shards!
This is real........ don't FAFO and ruin extremely valuable red and white wine... I will unsubbed 110% if you do not update and share it all.
You also have what we call in France a "Tire-bouchon bi-lame" which helps take out the cork without destroying it ( and without destroying the bottle either). This is a wine shop owner that gave me the tip to open a very old bottle. 👌😉
Seeing how all that wine is most likely bad, I see a really cool Demo Ranch video coming. "How many wine bottles will stop a 50 BMG." You can have Mere and Jenna there as well.
it depends on the heat
If the room is cold then most of them are probably good
@@demarderozan3786 update... they were not... i
...20 yrs in an abandoned building in central TX@@demarderozan3786
Look up Port tongs, they are basically tongs you heat to red hot and then put around the wine bottle neck just below the cork and they cause the neck of the bottle to sheer off cleanly, with no shards. Best way to deal with old wine corks like that. You might be able to use the CO2 needle based cork removers as well but the port tongs are the go to for really old bottles. Worse thing you'll have is probably a lot of vinegar if it got really warm in there.
Port tongs (Portuguese: Tenaz) are a special set of tongs designed to open wine bottles that are sealed with a cork. The tongs are heated over an open flame and held against the neck of the wine bottle for 20-30 seconds. The heated section of bottle is then cooled with a damp cloth or ice water, causing the glass to fracture due to thermal expansion. The result is generally a clean, predictable break. Any possible shards of glass are strained out, along with any sediment, when pouring the wine into a decanter.[1]
Port tongs should be a last resort, they have other tools that are made to open stuck wine corks
@@prodigypenn not stuck, old . Crumbling.
was thinking about the tongs myself as i was watching her dig out the degraded cork.
"I drank way sketchier stuff..." - Jenna is a keeper 🤣🤣🤣
Well that's good because she's been kept...err I mean she's married. LOL. (I'm trying to be funny but it just sounds chauvinistic.) LOL
"Tattoo Mere" for the win!!!
they already got kids, its too late at this point to wonder about keeping them or not
Depending on if the bottle has been standing up or laying down, will for sure make a difference on the bottom of the cork. Try some that has been standing up! Sure they might have some sediment (you keep turning bottles that lay down in storage) but it doesn't mean it's bad.
PLEASE make a video going through the wine bottles and pricing them! That would be awesome. I am so curious about them
The way old vintages are usually openened is with a tool that looks kind of like a pair of tongs, you get those red hot and then clamp them around the neck of the bottle to overheat a small section. Once heated you very quickly cool it with water to force a stress break of the glass, which gets you completely around the cork
This video needs to be up voted!!
Yes, do this.
I came here to say this
Port Tongs.
Lincoln's voice is getting deep! It's crazy watching these kids grow up.
So I wasn't the only one that noticed. Thank you.
Matt needs a Sommelier
Not going to lie its one of my FAVORITE things of this channel besides how dope matt and meredith are, watching the kids grow up has been very cool. Same with donuts son john. All very good people i hope i have a family just like you one day
yeah, but did you hear Addie? She sounds a lot deeper too
You should keep it closed up for another 20 or 30 years
kids are getting big man, time goes fast! :), love to ur family dude
That's why you store wine on its side and rotate occasionally, keep the corks wet. Really old bottles are opened by heating the neck with a special tool then quickly cooling it, so that the neck snaps off cleanly below the cork
You have to decant when it is older as the sediment settles at the bottom, the cork when it’s dry dry needs a special air pump wine opener. When older it gets darker as it ages.
yeah it get darker but if the wine turns brownish like that it means it's bad
Have an expert evaluate the whole lot. There may be some bottles that are valuable and/or drinkable. Also, you may want to use an opener that uses forced air to remove the cork, rather than a corkscrew.
Or use heat and cut the bottle below the cork
Every bottle of wine that has been standing up for 20 years has had the cork dried out and is probably bad.
@@bessajredini4754 nah that damages the wine, then again at least in the thumbnail those bottles weren't stored right and probably aren't any good anyhow
THE DURAND Wine bottle opener may be useful with those old bottles. The port is probably good. I look forward to a follow up video😊
I agree with the suggestion to get a Durand (kind of pricey) to open it. Also, if there's some cork in there, you can get a strainer meant for wine (cheap) and decant before trying it.
But yes, wine is not supposed to be stored in that kind of heat, so the odds are that the wine is ruined, or nearly so.
P.S. Even properly stored, wine often changes color with age.
For those old bottles you need a wine opener called an "Ah So". Its a two pronged opener that is better for those crumbly corks. Just because the cork is falling apart doesn't mean the wine is bad. The bottles that were standing up are all probably toast but you may have some gems that survived. Also any of that Champagne that is laying down could be Ok as well. Get it properly evaluated. If you don't have much experience with aged wines you might end up throwing away some really good stuff.
Demo Ranch them all.
holy i havent seen a video in years. the kids have grown up so big! wow! wish you and the family safety!
Well you missed a lot! Highly recommend watching the abandon mansion videos, and looking at the gun vault he built underneath it
This picture in the wine sellar is great! Especially love the fact the cork remover is there!!
There are ways to cut the neck of the bottle with a specific type of heated/ glowing pliers to avoid contaminating the wine with the cork. Hope you guys will enjoy them and be able to deal with the difficulties!
Kind regards from Germany! 19:28
Heat with ice
🍷🥴
they are called port tongs
Or you could try to saber it but there’s not pressure so that probably wouldn’t work 🤷♂️
@@Carv97 Also, Sabering risks getting glass shards in the bottle, which isn't ideal.
i never had so much drama and excitement watching a wine opening.. Keep it up and good luck. Stay safe and happy hunting.
You can open it with the "Port" bottle method which removes the top of the bottle.
Also if you rebuild and want a place to store wine, please build a proper cellar as the temperature stays right around 75F year round.
For storing Wine Bottles they should either be on it's side OR at a 45 degree angle with it's cork facing downwards.
Any bottles that was stored upright OR at a 45 degree angle with the cork facing upwards. Those are the ones you really got to watch out since that's not how you should store Wine Bottles as the cork tends to dry out. Which will then let air and everything else inside.
Even the bottles that was stored in the one of two correct positions will have to be really checked over before drinking. Best to take those bottles to someone who really knows about Wine and can check them. Over the 20 years it depends if the Wine Room stayed at a stable cool temp all those years. If the temp in the room jumped all over the place all those years I highly doubt any of those bottles will be any good to drink.
Storing the bottle horizontally is just as good. You don’t want the cork totally covered on the inside
Tbh so much just depends on the cork.
@@TheWebstaff 85% of the corks made in the world all come for the same region of Portugal.
I was thinking the same about the temp
out of all the bottles a handful will be alright to drink... they are ruined for sure
Myself, I would only start with the bottles stored on their sides to keep the cork moist. Careful with the ones standing upright. May need to investigate those more close!
Some people use a two-pronged cork extractor, also known as a butler's thief or an ah-so, which has two slim flat blades. These are gently inserted into the bottle neck on either side of the cork rather than through the cork, twisted and very gently pulled.
Keep the videos coming. This project has a zero percent chance of failing.
Save the bottles and sign them to put into your gift shop when y'all open up. It would be a cool piece of history for the resort and for y'all that guests could get
I'd love the ability to walk those gravel bars in the river and look for artifacts
Cool idea. Hopefully, they see this 😊
Problem with that is if someone does drink one, and they get sick the liability is on Matt, and who knows how much they could be sued for. They need to get someone who knows wine like a sommelier to go through the vault, and give them the thumbs up, or thumbs down on what to do with it all.
@@CommodoreFan64 each one could be labeled as "for display only. Not for human consumption" or something similar.
@@realityridiculous6239 Even with that, there is still a chance, plus I forgot to mention they would need to get a liquor license before they could be sold anyways. I use to work in a liquor store back in my senior year of high school when I turned 18(legal to sell at 18, but not drink in SC), for a family friend who needed the help, and I needed the job, so I learned a lot about the liquor, and alcohol sales business.
22:00 That color is fine for aged wine. Only new (like less than 10 years old ) wine will be very red.
As wine ages, it will usually turn brownish.
Lastly, Cork is natural, is pretty much wood, its not bad for health to drink a bit of it lol
But Cork will in fact get soft and just disintegrate with age (like 20 years), hence the very expensive bottles are also sealed with Wax (which none of the ones in the video were).
Last fun fact, when wine goes bad, it normally turns into a kind of vinegar and you will tell really fast if its not good lol
Wax doesn't always mean a very expensive bottle. That Paul Hobbd is probably expensive. Found a bottle of 2009 Pino not for 400 as a reference point
@@James-oe7ki True, just mentioned the reason why is normally used. As they know wax alone is not enough to have a good long term seal.
@@James-oe7ki also, if you mean 400$ for a bottle, that is already stupid expensive lool
Hope you separated the bottles that were laying down from the ones stored on their sides. FYI you can filter the wine with a cheese cloth.
Any aged bottle of wine can have a cork that won't hold up to a corkscrew removal. They have specific cork removers for this type of thing. I am going to say that if there are qualify bottles of wine in there, they are probably fine. Probably just past their prime but completely drinkable
Matt's daughter saying "it looks like you're trying to be cool", is so cute considering Matt is really frickin cool 😂
It dosent matter how cool someone’s parents are. As kids they will never see them as cool. It isn’t until they are also adults that you realize your parents are pretty cool.
Matt said when the whole family was at the Monster Truck show he drove in the kids had a lightbulb moment. They saw the fans and how everyone reacted to their parents and realized, they were cool. But as the teens set it....
More like a lovable doofus. 🙂
Man those kids have grown.
For older wine corks, an Ah-So Cork Puller works better. It has two prongs, they slide between the bottle and the cork. Maybe with one of those you'll find some of the wine salvageable.
Have not tuned in in a while. What a beautiful family.
You can get a sediment filter for those. The ones that were sideways kept the cork moist but those that were vertical dried out.
It's really crazy watching his kids grow up.
Apparently he keeps feeding them and they keep growing. Must be something in the water! 😅
A tip for the future, the bottles that are on the horizontal can be drinkeble 😅, because the cork isn't dry and protected the wine.
They are old bottles so it is normal the color and some "debrief" on the bottom of the bottle. So DO NOT SAKE THE BOTTLES so they don't mixe up.
The spelling makes this hard to read
@@micahv9365no it doesn't
I'm pretty sure heat cooked the wine- doesn't matter if they are sideways. That port is the only bottle with potential, but probably not.
Horizontal is the way you store it, but you are not factoring 20 years in 80 deg. Temps That long and it's tastes like vinegar. Storing horizontal keeps the cork moist so it's sealed.
one of the bottles they tried was stored flat. Doesnt matter, 20 years of texas heat will destroy any wine. Nothing in there will be worth drinking.
A place like this would have never lasted in my area. Would have been raided probably in the first year of being closed. Rad videos! Best of luck on this adventure!
Lay the bottles on their sides so corks moisture is regained. Also be able to tell if any do leak and thus are bad. As few others have said could distill it all. Cognac or whiskey something for grand opening of resort
Y'all should get a RUclips Sommelier out there and do an episode on grading/rating/seeing if any of that wine is still good or valuable
Yes..
Great idea. It would make for some interesting content for sure.
Yeah get that sommelier that Whiskey Tribe loves to harass.
@@TiffanySmith-ed2lj who?
So strange that no one ever broke into the cooler room over the years given all the vandalism and arson that happened. I'm also shocked that the wine wasn't taken/sold when the resort closed. Untitled assets usually disappear when a business fails.
Guessing the big padlock meant most people lurking broke into the easier buildings, then eventually the overgrowth was enough to keep it hidden.
@@HarroKitteh big padlock would have just been a mysterious lure to me in my misspent youth!
Most teens don't bring sawzalls when they go mess around at an abandoned resort, and they probably don't have any lockpicking skills either
@@daylen577 well, speak for yourself.
@@daylen577Maybe teens nowadays... lmao
Maybe try using a Coravin system. It basically plunges like a needle through the cork and lets you pour without opening the bottle. It's typically for more expensive bottles to keep them fresh longer so it might be on the more expensive end and there is gas you are supposed to get for it but it might help with the corks
EPIC FIND BUT BRO I WAS SWEATING!!! That angle of the Sawzall had me paranoid it was gonna kick back and Sawzall your arm off!!! MadLove ❤
I can’t believe with the amount of vandalism there, that they never found a room with a lock and broke in!
vandals were most likely kids & were probably too scared of maybe finding bodies inside a locked door/room to try n break thru
the door was covered and matt didnt even know it was there and hes been going on a regular basis vs the random person lurking around for a bit
It’s that bamboo. Perfect camouflage.
As a wine enthusiast of many years I suspect most of the wine is going to be lovely. Corks can deteriorate even when the bottles are stored horizontally or even with the neck slightly tilted down. I will also say that I’ve only ever seen Mere drinking white wines in previous videos. If you’re not fully indoctrinated into the world of reds they can definitely be an acquired taste. 😂
Nah. She drinks mostly red wine.. Those corks were the give away the contents was bad.. If they break apart like that then they weren't actually sealing anymore.. Off wine will strip the enzymes from your colon and small intestines and take a good week to heal and repair. The best way to check wine is to put it through a paper filter. If theres is any sediment on the filter the wine is bad, .
@@ironmaiden5658 cork falling apart doesnt necessarily mean the wine has gone bad, it just means that its old cork. theres a reason that they use different methods of opening other than a corkscrew for the super fancy super old wines in restaurants
Y'all are focusing on the cork, the deciding factor is the heat. I don't care how insulated the room is. Lets say for argument's sake the room topped out at 95 Deg. Fahrenheit w/ lows getting down to the 50's. that kind of fluctuation for 20 years wont do the wine any good. I'm not even sure a fortified wine such as a Porto or a Sherry would survive that.
@@dragonlvr069 Nah, It's the cork. The cork stop oxygen from creating a greenhouse inside the bottle. When the cork has been compromised the wine is tainted.
@@ironmaiden5658 what? All aged red wine will leave sediment. It is not an indication of wine going bad
Way to be brave and taste it everyone!
BUT there are openers that use Co2 and a needle, pushes right through the cork. Fills the bottle with air and pushes out the cork.
Woa, that's sweet! Struck gold there! Be fun to serve these to your guests.
You should keep the bottles and place them around the new restaurant as decor I think that would be a cool piece of history
For sure...
good idea
I bet Mere regrets throwing all those wine glasses now, lol.
lol facts xD
That was Awesome,cool video, especially with Donut& Heather!
I love the legendary wine filter! The improvisation is amazing!
A very slow one though
Matt, the bottles of wine that are on their side should be fine because the Cork has been kept wet to stop any air or bacteria
Those two bottles were on a horizontal rack I think. Jenna grabbed them from the corner in that back room.
As a wine lover, producer, grower, and drinker, wow! What an awesome find. Unfortunately, when a wine gets warm, it accelerates the aging process a little too fast and ruins the wine. The corks failed due to a lack of humidity. Had they been cellared correctly, I bet a few of those wines would have made it. Still, it's an awesome find! Thank you for the great videos, and I love this new venture! I will help you set up a wine cellar in exchange for a stay at the resort when it's done!
I know they turn to vinegar after... couldn't they use the wines on salads? As part of a vinegrett.
Warmth and exposure to oxygen will definitely turn wine into vinegar!
Woah I haven't heard Lincoln's voice in just about a year now, and it is sooooooo much deeper! No baby Lincoln! Been a long time since 2018 when I started watching.
Get a pneumatic wine opener, its a long needle with a tiny "bicycle" pump built on to it... you insert the needle and pump air into the bottle and the cork slide out with a small pop....
Can’t wait for the pricing video. That 2015 Vosne Romanee bottle at 11:28 is at least $130 from what I can find. Pretty sure there are apps that you can snap a pic of the label to get all the info.
You need a Durand. It is a two part tool that is used to open vintage wines with fragile corks. Although heat does spoil wine, and a lot of what you found probably is.
Yeah unfortunately Texas isn’t the best when it comes to cool temperatures those bottles might have gotten to at least 90 degrees for weeks for the past 20 years hopefully the fridge was well built and kept most of the 100+ degrees weather out
If you have any bottles stored with wine touching cork or angled with cork closer to the ground than the bottom of the bottle is, try those bottles. From what I noticed, there may have been only a few in this orientation to try. Those bottles should still be good, even if they lost refrigeration.
Man what id give to be hangin out with Matt and Donut!
I have been selling wine and beer for a living since I got out of the Army. You need a new wine opening device just a friendly heads up. You may have some great bottles that are sought after and you could use a coravin to sample some that may have some corks that are compromised. Nice find and congrats on the property brother.
None of them drink though so they need to just hire someone like you to figure it out. Somehow I don’t think these people are going to make this their new hobby. I mean - I would.. but I love alcohol. 😂
Matt, you really need to make an underground wine and liquor cellar now as part of the renovation
@3:10, those bottles will only be (guaranteed) worth more if the temperature and humidity have been properly maintained in the cellar. Above ground, it’s a gamble: does the building have passive environmental regulation?
@18:00, the cork just dry-rotted. When doing long-term storage, laying the wine slightly on its side will allow the cork to absorb some wine and keep from drying out like that (and still promotes settling of solids)
Pour it through cheese cloth. Also look for the ports and fortitude ports! Cool find. Nice new gun locker any way
The bottle/cork is perfect! Vintage bottles commonly have a cork that crumbles that why you double decant the wine using a sieve/ muslin cloth to get all the particles out.. also using a special cork screw which is designed for older bottles like a helix corkscrew or a gas pressured one!
I dont want to be negative but come on , all that stuff is vingar now .
@@b.e.marshall1148 Maybe not, it is concrete. Temp might not have gotten over 75.
Block house in the desert probably got to 95F inside. However, temp alone won't necessarily ruin the wine its just not an ideal storage temperature. The leaking bottles are corked but the first one they opened actually looked okay.
there is a wine opener that does not go through the cork. it is like a thin sheet of metal that separates the blottle from the cork and you can slide the cork off the bottle.
A nice way to spend a Sunday. A little family B & E quality time.
For thoes who don't know, when a bank forecloses on a business like that you are not allowed to take anything from the property without proving you own it and not the business. Hence why the previous owners didn't remove the wine. As the reason the bank didn't sell off the wine, I'd have to assume they originally tried to sell the entire asset together and by the time they may have considered selling individual assets off, the bank probably forgot all about the wine in the cellar
I am more surprised that the place didn't get vandalized.
Matt, being honest here. You need to get a wine expert in there. There is a damn good chance you have some VERY pricy wine in there, just on your camera panning around I saw a few bottles that if they are what I suspect, are $1000+ a bottle.
Nothing in this cellar is worth anything. It'll all be cooked
@@Skumgummiii Not true, there may be a few bottles that didn't cork, I would suspect the ones closer to the ground and not vertical would give the best chance. However it would be stupid not to have a pro at least look. Even the "likely corked" top end wines sell for stupidly huge prices even on the off chance it MIGHT be good.
Trust me the wine trading market is insane.
@@obiesunstreak2409 He said 'cooked' not corked.
and probably 95% plus of the contents of that room will be garbage. most of them wouldn't be good even after 20 years in a cool cellar, let alone 20 years of Texas summer heat.
@@jamess2873
Yeah Texas heat probably f'cked them wine bottles a while ago
@@Skumgummiii you don't know that.
You’ve got some serious bottles in there, I even see a Monte Bello.. Hoping they’re not all gone bad!
That was a great find, And thank you for the shirt
This would have made the best Lock Picking Lawyer crossover episode
LPL only woulda been there for 4 seconds. That was a master lock
he would travel multiple hours to that ranch and just grab one of mere's hairclips, shove it in there and pop it open in a sec. "this is a *insert lock name* you can open it using a hairclip I found on meres head".
@@valkyriesurvives5109 he'd bring a masterlock of his own and just stand there saying "this is a masterlock type.... , you can open it using a masterlock" *bangs the lock and it springs open.
@@Coekieking either scenario would be amazing
@@valkyriesurvives5109 It was a brinks R70, LPL video 162
At this point Mere regrets throwing all those wine glasses in the first episode!
I was just thinking the same 😂
From what I could see of the walls that is an old school cooler, maybe made from a product called foamglas, but most likely the walls are made of cork, covered in plaster. The wooden doors also go way back, but not so much on the door hardware, still similar to modern ones. The first door I can see is a Jamison, they are still in business.
I am crying! That wine was most likely not bad. I sure hope it didn't all get tossed!
Hey matt...no loss....in your new restaurant display the bottles on a beautiful wine wall.....that looks great!!!
Yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
If you really want to save the wine from the cork slushie I suggest heated wine tongs it cracks the bottle perfectly after the cork
This 🔥🔥🔥
YAY GLASS CHARDS IN YOUR WINE.
Wish you luck.. hopefully some of those bottles are ok.
if you put the bottle in a dress shoe or a solid shoe at the heel and hold it secure you can bang it against a vertical wall and the vibration will push the cork out
I love aged wines and maybe a quarter of my corks have at least partially lost their structural integrity. I use “the durand” to open these bottles and succeeded 95% percent off the time.
I honestly assumed the wine cellar was a pipe dream, lost and irrecoverable. This is insane! Great find Carrickers!
Matt: @19:28 or so, your flashlight crossed over one of the best of reds. It was a Beaulieu Vintner bottle of one of their Cabernets. Now, that’s Jackpot, if it has any longevity, like a 68 Cab, like I had on my 22nd b-day. Also, reds shouldn’t be chilled, and also, they should be kept at a solid temp, which since I stopped using alcohol 20 yrs ago.
5:58 That kind of lock is super easy (barely an inconvenience) to open by drilling out the tumblers.
You need special wine tool, it holds cork by sides and doesnt ruin it.
there are several tools that could help with that. You could melt the top off the bottle. Or more realisticly you could use a gas wine bottle opener, that is basibly a needle you push through the cork and open it with pressure from the inside.
Good idea.
Yes, it's called an "Ah-so Wine Opener"
Should use a needle bottle opener. It uses air pressure to extract the cork.
Or a set of Port tongs
This is 100% what I was thinking, force the thing up from the bottom.
If the corks are bad in the first place it’s not going to matter.
@@kimberlyenglehardt5770 They are still sealing. They just get destroyed by the screw.