280,000 litres of wasted wine at the centre of million dollar Supreme Court dispute

HOW 280,000 litres of wine – the equivalent of 373,333 bottles – ended up on the ground and in the drainage system of a Riverland storage facility is at the centre of a million-dollar claim by an SA-based international wine company. In Supreme Court civil proceedings, Accolade Wines is seeking $789,669 plus costs from family-owned SA winemaker Kingston Estate and Berri engineering company Monash Property. The claim is not for the value of the wine, but for damage caused to its property by the wine’s escape on August 16 or 17, 2013.