Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
My name is Dan Shriver, I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with you, James.
Okay my fact this week is that when the world's largest bottle of wine sprung a leak this year the owner called the local fire department who stopped the spillage with sandbags.
Wow.
How big are we talking?
We're talking big.
It was 9.8 feet tall, 2.6 tons in weight and 1,590 litres which is about the equivalent of 2,000 bottles of wine.
If we lived in a truly circular recycling economy then they would have gone,
solved the wine problem, retained the wine and used it to put out their next fire.
Well they could have done that, apart from the wine is still drinkable, believe it or not.
Not the stuff they squeegee'd off the floor.
Well, it depends on your standards, right?
That's true.
So they took this bottle of wine and they got all the stuff off the floor and then they took the wine from the bottle and put it into barrels and they've checked it,
they took it to a winery to test and it's been deemed fit for consumption and they're going to sell it by the glass at an upcoming event.
Cool, that's going to take ages, isn't it?