Matt holler at me if you would like to make a brandy, idk how to communicate thru youtube, but i could help either make it or find a distiller that could
Matt, trained distiller here, we could save what’s left of that wine and turn it into brandy! Whiskey is made from corn and malt etc…I can help turn that old wine into brandy and you could age that brandy with wood from your ranch or in white oak barrels
Aging any alcohol in wood is kind of tricky. The main goal is to oxidize all the fusel alcohols (from the wine itself or a primitive still with no rectification) into esters by controlled exposure to air. The wood itself gives the brandy some character too, yet there is such thing like too much of a good thing here - all the tannins and other compounds. This is why wooden barrels used previously for some wine like Port or Sherry are in high demand for maturing brandy or whisky.
I owned a vineyard and there was a wine glut so I turned my wine into vinegar. You are sitting on minimum 10’s of thousands of dollars in Desperado Vinegar. All you do it put it in tubs covered and it naturally becomes vinegar and extracts a mother from the air. I had 64 gallons that yielded $65k. You have much much more.
Are you recommending to blend it all into one batch? Wouldn't that ruin the flavor? One more thing. How long will it take to become vinegar? I tried once with a quart jar on the counter top that evaporated away without becoming vinegar.
@@jimdent351 I blended my varietals and it was brilliant. I did giant batches so I had minimal evaporation. Table wine to vinegar conversion should take a week or less in a cool dark place from a single bottle.
@@guillermodelnoche Thanks for the reply. Oddly, my attempt at making wine didn't go even after several months. How cool of a temp do you recommend? I have some older bottles lying around from some of my past vintages that I'd like to attempt once more. Thanks.
Hey Matt and Mare! I'm Amanda from Moonshiners on Discovery Channel. I heard you might want some wine distilled! I'd be happy to do it for ya or with you guys.. I can show you how it's done. If you distill that you'll get a Brandy. Whiskey is grains, Brandy is grapes. I been watching your adventures forever. If you need some wine made into liquor let me know😅. Love you guys!
the magic of youtube, bringing people from all the way across the country together to make moonshine from 20 year old spoiled wine. pretty sure i had something similar in college circa when that wine was still good and im still not sure if ive im still not sure if i back in circa when that college was still good ive fully recovered from it! was pretty good stuff so good luck with your moonshining meetup. everyone loves a good crossover!
As a member of the Whiskey Tribe, I have to say Crowded Barrel, who is also local to Texas does amazing experiments distilling whiskey and alcohols. Reach out to them!!!!
Correction. If you distill wine you do not get whiskey, but rather brandy. Grains = whiskey Fruit = Brandy I can hook you up, but unfortunately I'm in South Africa. When looking for a distiller... please use someone that is going to double distill using an alembic pot still. If you use columns you going to strip away too much of the flavour.
Here in Texas we have a few companies that might be down for the challenge such as Balcones distillery or The Whiskey Tribe which is a whiskey review and marketing group who now owns a distillery and they do some experimental stuff all the time.
If you do turn that wine to any other alcohol please be sure and save the bottles. Sign them with a silver sharpie or something like that and sell them in the new gift shop once you have the place up and running. Lots of us would love to own a part of what the property had when you bought it to make it great again! Keep up the great work you are all doing. Great team you have there Matt!
First, as a winetuber in San Antonio, I love the fact that you posted this video. There are some pretty cool looking bottles in that collection. Second, some of the other folks have mentioned reaching out to Whiskey Tribe to help with the distilling of the wine into whiskey... well, it would probably end up as Brandy since you need another base for fermentation to make whiskey. They are in Dripping Springs and are super awesome folks. I'm sure that they would love to help you with that task.
I have no knowledge of wine, but I do cook and can. But if you start with a wine that the flavor isn't good, how can you distill it to have good flavor. You can't make something taste good when you start with bad flavor. Just wondering.
Well if you are any kind of wine pro, you would know that all those bottles are 100% cooked in that heat and are all worthless! trying to resell them would be a scam!
Doubt Matt or the crew will see this, but that flower painted bottle "1996 Perrier Jouet" EMPTY is worth about $40 to a collector. Might get a little more because of the box. The bottles are hand painted.
i don't believe perrier jouet hand paints their belle epoques (aka fleur de champagne pre-2002). whenever champagnes put the vintage date on the bottle it means it was a good year for the grapes and can charge a premium for the quality. still, tens of thousands get released and i find it difficult to wrap my head around hand painting each bottle. painted, sure, but likely via machine.
Matt, you should definitely look at clearing land down by the river and having a Camping/RV section on the resort. Low over head and you’d be able to offset the reno for the resort.
Matt, Just an Idea. When you editing your video, have a small see through map up in one of the corners (lower right) and Highlight the area of the Desperado that you are at as you start the scene. When you move to a different area, then change the highlighted of the map on screen. Hope this helps.
As a Food & Beverage Director at a Caribbean luxury resort, I'm in tears. After 2017 hurricanes Irma and Maria hit us, our entire high end wine colection inventory was immediately an insurance claim because our coolers were down with no way of cooling it for months. You had some amazing wines in that inventory... just sad. Good luck on whiskey. Our insurance company never had that recommendation. Lol.
@jamesleutshe5664 trust me you can there's a whole community that does it. Whiskey is a general term for a process you're thinking of bourbon that has strict guidelines
I am just amazed that all those bottles of wine sat there for 20+ years and nobody found it sooner. There had to be people back when the resort closed down that had knowledge of all that wine being there.
Just so you know, what’s listed on the menu isn’t the cost of the bottle… like Meiomi is $20 a bottle in the stores but at a resort or restaurant it’s around $44
Collab with the guys from Whiskey Tribe? They’re out of the Austin area and like doing experiments making whiskeys. Might even be able to sell some bottles
Ok so it won’t be whiskey, it would technically be brandy. There’s a chance it’s not possible since there may no longer be any alcohol content left to distill. But definitely call the Crowded Barrel Whiskey Company in Austin. They love weird experiments and have lots of experience.
It's awesome that they let Mikey run free in the pasture. In his natural habitat. Can we get a Mikey appreciation fan club already? Also, I never thought I would hear Matt say "I hope he gets ploughed by a ram" 0.o I'm not sure that means what you think it means Matt 😂
The temperatures that wine storage room reached probably ruined every single bottle, regardless of whether they were on their sides or any other conditions.
Opus one is an extremely expensive wine. That box is probably very valuable! I would definitely be careful with that box because that box alone, is probably worth about $1000 with the wine inside of it.
Not too expensive really, compared to others. Less than $400 a bottle. And those boxes come for free when you order a six pack, so they're not really worth much. If you want to get your hands on one, call a high end restaurant. They typically order lots of that wine.
As a former food and beverage manager at a resort, generally speaking alcohol costs are only about 21% from the distributer. Wine purchased in bulk will be even less. And often those random cases not on the wine list are free promotional items. From experience that was probably a few thousand dollars worth of wine.
I wonder who is going to start taking the hospitality business classes; cause none of these guys have a clue about restaurants or hotels other than eating and sleeping.
Just a thought. You brought up turning the burned down building into a restaurant and in this video you mentioned a burger for lunch and beer with dinner. You have a lot of land obviously. Partner with a distillery and build a new distillery and brewery on the resort. Now you got Desperado whiskey, beer, ect. Available at the restaurant and even offer bottles/cans in a gift shop/resort store for people to buy and take home or just keep in their room during their stay. Just a thought that could be very profitable and also cool to have and single this resort out even more from others
11:38 The Perrier Jouët - The Fleur de Champagne is on the list right above the Dom Perignon you just pointed out. My guess is that the wooden case of Opus One is the most valuable thing you have there. A case of six like that will fetch around €2500 (€3000) over here. My guess is that the wine cellar was way too hot so they might be spoilt.
If you distill the alcohol out of the wine you have brandy/cognac depending on the type of wine and how you distill and cut the alcohol. Really old high dollar wine turned to vinegar can in some instances be almost as valuable as old wine.
So funny to hear and see German language as a native speaker :D BTW No.574 should be written as "Piesporter Goldtröpfechen". Directly translatet means Goldtröpfchen gold droplet. May be just marketing or it is namend after the growing area :) Nearly all wines from your menu under section Germany seems to come from one of our federal states "Saarland". Its in the west of Germany. Famous for wine. Mosel and Saar are two rivers in that state as well. Pflaz is also knowen for very good wines. Pflaz is a region of another state calles Rheinland-Pflaz. Recommendation for all wine lovers :) Best from Frankfurt am Main
Of course Mere is around when wine is involved 🤣🤣🤣 When I worked in a warehouse for a liquor distributor, those bag in a box bladders piss for a week when the get a small hole in them. 😁
Another good channel to get ahold of for info on what to do with the wine would be "Still It". He is based in New Zealand and has quite a bit of experience with making spirits from random things. Other youtubers have used his advise to good effect.
@@Modelo646 Man has dozens of employees by now. And multiple businesses to manage, i'd like to think he still does it himself but it's fairly unlikely and for him probably something that would take up a lot of valuable time better invested elsewhere. idk props if he still does it tho
Matt, I sell wine in Alabama to various retailers for over the past 15 years. I see multiple gems there. It would be fun to rate what you have what cost is like, versus the retail on the menus in the past. There is some cool/great stuff there, vast majority is probably not in ideal condition, but some may have survived. Love what you do, very fun to watch!
Surely nothing is going to have survived that heat cycling to still be drinkable, or almost nothing, no matter is quality. For unopened/non drinkable collector value some of it might work.
I love your videos, and I’m a huge wine fan…. Having said this, all these bottles are in different stages of decay. Fun to watch you discover them all, but these are not for consumption. When it runs brown, it’s not a good sign.
Floaters in old wine is natural. The "tannins" gather together & smooth the wine out, which is why you decant an aged wine (so you don't accidentally pour chunks/tannins in your glass). But.... heat is a killer.
tannins are an astringent mouthfeel that gives you a 'puckering' sensation similar to sour candies. not an object. the chunks are natural sediments from the wine making process. dead yeast cells, tartaric acid crystals, parts of the grape, etc.
A friend of mine worked at Windows on the World in 1983- the restaurant at the top of the original World Trade Center. Lauren Bacall, the actress, came in one day for lunch with her entourage; they ordered two bottles of Perrier Jouet champagne. The cost in 1983 was $500.00 per bottle.
Wowza.❤🎉 loving this show. Yup dont need TV . UA-cam has it all and better! This will be a kong project with many projects for years Im sure but keep filming plenty. We r loving it! Love from Alberta
Hey, Matt! My dad was one of the highest volume liquor and wine salesmen for the 2nd largest distributor in West Coast, and he said those Opus bottles WOULD HAVE been worth $500/bottle if they didn't have that leakage and red spots on the tissue paper.
You can distill wine again to make brandy but be careful of the varieties that you mix together or your flavors might be horrible. Make small batches first before a larger run. Save the bottles as many are collectors items, especially the hand painted champagne bottles from France. You can display or sell later
Y'ALL!!! RED ALERT!! You gotta reach out to the Whisk(e)y Tribe who are literal EXPERTS on makin funky and new whiskies. They run a nonprofit educational side as well. Best of all, THEY'RE IN AUSTIN. PLEASE please reach out to them Edit: Accidental Profanity
ok weird but cool idea... you could have the wine bottles that are bad cut, so they are drinking glasses so your not having to waste glass, but you also get glass wear for the resort and its a little piece of history for the place... just an idea i thought you would like
Check some of the bottles that were on there sides. Especially the ones in the wooden box. Those actually may ztill well be good. They were sealed from any exposure to air and the vorks should eb in awesome shape.
1:49 for future reference, if you ever want to prevent change from popping and breaking a window, take a tire run the chain through it make sure that the Tire is greater than half the distance of the total length of chain that way if it breaks free and whips over the tire will stop it
I will pass that on to my cousin who works on a ranch. If he had not chosen the old backhoe loader with the half ass cage he would have been decapitated.
The safest way to use chains is to use them for the purpose they are designed to be used. Your example only provides protection for a breaks that occur after the tire, what about a break occurring before the tire, which is at a higher risk to occur from the added force from the weight of the tire now being applied to a single chain.
I remember OPUS ONE from my wines course in culinary school, and then became very familiar with it throughout my restaurant career...tastes amazing and its worth a ton new let alone from 02'
Can't believe they just left a box of Opus behind, those are like 1k each now. Even if you distill it, it'll never be whiskey since it's from grapes, but you can make brandy. See what craft distillery is around you and get their thoughts!
The problem withthe wine is it hasn't been in a temperature controlled environment. I think they're mainly toast. Mikey is so funny! I can see why you're friends!
Technically it would be brandy if you distilled it. I'm pretty sure I was the first to suggest this on the original video too😊 glad to see that's the route you're wanting to take. You won't regret it, take my word.
Matt should auction these bottles off, all proceeds go to charity, and everyone that wins a bottle enters a giveaway for a week stay at the resort (when its done up some more)
Thats way more hassle then its worth, he would need a liquor license to be able to sell any of it, and opens him up to countless lawsuits when the people who buy it inevitably drink it and get sick.
A shame....the Opus One mini crate...ugh (up to $500/bottle) and the Perrier Jouet "Flower Bottle" could have fetched a good price as well. The lack of being properly stored = all the whites are rotten and the reds are, at best, vinegar. Curious to see if there really is a way to make a distilled 'something' that won't offend/poison anybody...lol. Great content. Thanks to Matt and the crew for another great video 😁
Broke my heart to see that Opus box.😢 what a waste of some excellent wine. So many of those bottles wasted . I worked for a winery and they created wine caves downstairs that were naturally occurring 50° to protect the wine barreled down there whether there was power or not.
That wine is vinegar so, no alcohol so you can’t distill it. The ethanol in the wine was then converted to acetic acid and you now have vinegar. You may be able to save some of the bottle which may have value if very rare. Other than being decorative they are trash. Most likely they fridge was turned off or broke and wine went bad before closing. It’s beyond bad now.
Makes sense, I have been in a wine cellar that had bottles hundreds of years old, and all the bottles were on their side, the only thing that might be a problem would be the heat.
I'm no pro distiller but I do distill the same way my grandad taught me and I can say flat out you will NOT get whiskey from distilling wine, however if you distill it 3 or 4 times (or in a reflux column still) you might get some damn fine brandy out of it.
@@ProjectKnowledge4UOf course it can’t be distilled into whisky. Whisky is, by definition, a spirit distilled from grains (a distilled beer if you will). If you distill wine, you’ll get brandy.
@@AutomotiveRomance Okay, let's look at the science. There are 4 basic types of alcohol ethyl, denatured, isopropyl and rubbing. The one that we drink and love is ethyl alcohol, also called ethanol or grain alcohol. It's made by fermenting sugar and yeast in a process that results in beer, wine, and liquor. You can distill alcohol from beer, wine and liquor, because the chemical compounds of ethyl alcohol is the same. The structural formula of ethyl alcohol is C2H5OH and it is the same formula for the alcohol in beer, wine and liquor. Alcohol boils at 173f, so why can't it be distilled into whisky, Beer and wine have a much lower alcohol content then liquor, but liquor is not 100% alcohol. An 80 proof bottle of whisky contains 40% alcohol, and why can't a part of that 40% come from the alcohol that was sourced from wine? It's basic chemistry! I do understand the standards that Whisky is distilled grains, but that feints jar gets added all the same!
@@ProjectKnowledge4U Did you not read what I wrote? It has nothing to do with the science behind distillation. If it’s distilled from a (cereal) grain based fermentation (beer) it can be called whisky. If it’s distilled from a fruit based fermentation (wine) it can’t be called whisky, but is called brandy. If the ethanol in the spirit comes from something other than (cereal) grains, it simply can’t be called whisky but is another spirit. These definitions are age old and in most countries around the world they are even legal definitions.
@@AutomotiveRomance I will say you are absolutely right, I know you are right, I know what whisky is, but there are a growing number of distillers who are sourcing alcohol as a cost saving measure. Go north of the border or south of the border, and you will see what I am talking about.
Nice find.... The Opus One Prime Cellar Lists for 400+ USD a bottle. However the storage was, at best, 'highly questionable.' Most of the wines will not be good as the storage temperature fluctuation was extreme. You just might get lucky with a few of the sparkling wines, for personal consumption.
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Fly out the LA BEAST and have him taste test the old wines
Please take it all to a person who can make it into Brandy. It can be Demo yak
Matt holler at me if you would like to make a brandy, idk how to communicate thru youtube, but i could help either make it or find a distiller that could
Take all the bad ones to your range there plenty of targets
That would be Brandy not Whiskey, age 15 years and you would have Bunker Branding Brandy
Matt, trained distiller here, we could save what’s left of that wine and turn it into brandy! Whiskey is made from corn and malt etc…I can help turn that old wine into brandy and you could age that brandy with wood from your ranch or in white oak barrels
That's a great idea!!
Hell yeah 👍
Like so he sees
This is the best idea!
Aging any alcohol in wood is kind of tricky. The main goal is to oxidize all the fusel alcohols (from the wine itself or a primitive still with no rectification) into esters by controlled exposure to air. The wood itself gives the brandy some character too, yet there is such thing like too much of a good thing here - all the tannins and other compounds. This is why wooden barrels used previously for some wine like Port or Sherry are in high demand for maturing brandy or whisky.
I owned a vineyard and there was a wine glut so I turned my wine into vinegar. You are sitting on minimum 10’s of thousands of dollars in Desperado Vinegar. All you do it put it in tubs covered and it naturally becomes vinegar and extracts a mother from the air. I had 64 gallons that yielded $65k. You have much much more.
It’s already vinegar.
😳😲
Are you recommending to blend it all into one batch? Wouldn't that ruin the flavor? One more thing. How long will it take to become vinegar? I tried once with a quart jar on the counter top that evaporated away without becoming vinegar.
@@jimdent351 I blended my varietals and it was brilliant. I did giant batches so I had minimal evaporation. Table wine to vinegar conversion should take a week or less in a cool dark place from a single bottle.
@@guillermodelnoche Thanks for the reply. Oddly, my attempt at making wine didn't go even after several months. How cool of a temp do you recommend? I have some older bottles lying around from some of my past vintages that I'd like to attempt once more. Thanks.
Hey Matt and Mare! I'm Amanda from Moonshiners on Discovery Channel. I heard you might want some wine distilled! I'd be happy to do it for ya or with you guys.. I can show you how it's done. If you distill that you'll get a Brandy. Whiskey is grains, Brandy is grapes. I been watching your adventures forever. If you need some wine made into liquor let me know😅. Love you guys!
the magic of youtube, bringing people from all the way across the country together to make moonshine from 20 year old spoiled wine. pretty sure i had something similar in college circa when that wine was still good and im still not sure if ive im still not sure if i back in circa when that college was still good ive fully recovered from it! was pretty good stuff so good luck with your moonshining meetup. everyone loves a good crossover!
She's the best in the business! That would be a great collaboration
Ciroc is grape vodka... could this wine be turned into something like that?
Awesome; too bad they are trolling you. Idk.😂
Hey Amanda from moonshiners! I'd love to come on over and bang ya!
As a member of the Whiskey Tribe, I have to say Crowded Barrel, who is also local to Texas does amazing experiments distilling whiskey and alcohols. Reach out to them!!!!
@whiskeytribe could make a cool colab for sure!
I second this
Yes definitely crowded barrel
It's also only like 1.5 hours away!
lol ur a member of a whiskey tribe and dont know that alcohol from a wine is called #Brandy
Matt should collaborate with the whiskey tribe to turn all the wine into whiskey.
This is what I said
But it won't be a whiskey.
Hell yeah. I already put in a request with them as a patreon member
Brandy* It can't become whiskey
@whiskeytribe could make a cool colab for sure!
Correction. If you distill wine you do not get whiskey, but rather brandy.
Grains = whiskey
Fruit = Brandy
I can hook you up, but unfortunately I'm in South Africa.
When looking for a distiller... please use someone that is going to double distill using an alembic pot still. If you use columns you going to strip away too much of the flavour.
Here in Texas we have a few companies that might be down for the challenge such as Balcones distillery or The Whiskey Tribe which is a whiskey review and marketing group who now owns a distillery and they do some experimental stuff all the time.
Yes, it would be brandy not whiskey. Would be an interesting experiment though.
Considering they are complaining about the taste, I think the pot still can sit this one out.
I was about to point this out. Definitely make some Brandy
If you do turn that wine to any other alcohol please be sure and save the bottles. Sign them with a silver sharpie or something like that and sell them in the new gift shop once you have the place up and running. Lots of us would love to own a part of what the property had when you bought it to make it great again! Keep up the great work you are all doing. Great team you have there Matt!
That’s a really cool idea!
First, as a winetuber in San Antonio, I love the fact that you posted this video. There are some pretty cool looking bottles in that collection. Second, some of the other folks have mentioned reaching out to Whiskey Tribe to help with the distilling of the wine into whiskey... well, it would probably end up as Brandy since you need another base for fermentation to make whiskey. They are in Dripping Springs and are super awesome folks. I'm sure that they would love to help you with that task.
I have no knowledge of wine, but I do cook and can. But if you start with a wine that the flavor isn't good, how can you distill it to have good flavor. You can't make something taste good when you start with bad flavor. Just wondering.
that would make a awesome colab video. just keep Brianna Bananna away from your guns
@@silentbob151a this is an understatement...
Well if you are any kind of wine pro, you would know that all those bottles are 100% cooked in that heat and are all worthless! trying to resell them would be a scam!
@@Manaxxss he never once mentioned selling them, he said some of the bottles were "cool looking"
Those opus one bottles are amazing, 2002 one bottle goes for $400 to $1300 and the fact that they are signed too wow great find
Doubt Matt or the crew will see this, but that flower painted bottle "1996 Perrier Jouet" EMPTY is worth about $40 to a collector. Might get a little more because of the box. The bottles are hand painted.
i saw that wine on the list #666 at $197
i don't believe perrier jouet hand paints their belle epoques (aka fleur de champagne pre-2002). whenever champagnes put the vintage date on the bottle it means it was a good year for the grapes and can charge a premium for the quality. still, tens of thousands get released and i find it difficult to wrap my head around hand painting each bottle. painted, sure, but likely via machine.
@@porkchopsammies79 makers mark wax dips 23 million bottles per year by hand
Also Clase Azul tequila is all hand painted bottles.
If nothing else. You'll have a "How many bottles of wine does it take to stop a 50cal" video.
i like the way you think
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 awesome but can you imagine the smell after EEEWWWW🤢
This would be awesome
Hope Matt can use the 50 opened bottles for this while doing another vid with the sealed ones. Efficiency and more vids!
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Matt, you should definitely look at clearing land down by the river and having a Camping/RV section on the resort. Low over head and you’d be able to offset the reno for the resort.
The teenagers in that town are a disgrace, that they failed to find that liquor.
Been sitting in 100 degree weather for how many years?
They should have found it 19 years ago, instead of just breaking windows.@@pedromunoz5630
@@pedromunoz5630 They had 20 years to find it. They could have found it 20 years ago before it spoiled.
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I thought the same thing! What a shame someone wasn't able to drink it. 😂😂
I feel like Whiskey Tribe needs to connect with Matt and do a "Will it Distill?" episode with these wines.
you can distill the wine , but it won't make whiskey.
It will that is how you get brandy, cognac, grappa
I was just about to say the same thing before I saw this. I couldn't agree more
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100% whiskey tribe
Seems like Matt needs to make a new wine cellar deep underground so even if it loses power it can stay "relatively" cool
unfortunately stored wine does not work like that You do need to take care of it ,not just temperature .
@@bobbob-ze9zonope not really the whole turning thing is bullshit and will actually hinder the aging process
I've been in a couple wineries' cellars in Napa and it can be done. You have to go really deep, though, and limit access in the warmer months.
you need to turn wine every so often, plus keep it at 8degrees celsius (guessing but i think that's 40-44F)
The proper storage temperature for red wine is 55 degrees. A lot of people in the comments with little to no wine knowledge with really bad opinions.
Matt, Just an Idea. When you editing your video, have a small see through map up in one of the corners (lower right) and Highlight the area of the Desperado that you are at as you start the scene. When you move to a different area, then change the highlighted of the map on screen. Hope this helps.
that would be great actually!
a mini map!
You definitely are a gamer 😂
@@marcimli3231or a graphic designer, more likely
As a Food & Beverage Director at a Caribbean luxury resort, I'm in tears. After 2017 hurricanes Irma and Maria hit us, our entire high end wine colection inventory was immediately an insurance claim because our coolers were down with no way of cooling it for months. You had some amazing wines in that inventory... just sad. Good luck on whiskey. Our insurance company never had that recommendation. Lol.
yea.... it's all ruined.
It's complete garbage, so sad. You can't make whiskey from wine though. Maybe brandy, but I'm not sure spoiled/ruined wine would make good brandy.
🤝. Man it’s been a bit but yup, same reaction lol. Industry ppl past and current be losing it lol.
@jamesleutshe5664 trust me you can there's a whole community that does it. Whiskey is a general term for a process you're thinking of bourbon that has strict guidelines
@@obad7633 making moonshine involves even more strict rules
The wine bottle edit when Jen picked the bottle off the top shelf was pretty sweet!
I am just amazed that all those bottles of wine sat there for 20+ years and nobody found it sooner. There had to be people back when the resort closed down that had knowledge of all that wine being there.
I worked at a restaurant that closed unexpectedly with the last paycheck unobtainable, you bet I walked away with an armful of Johnnie Walker...
I'm guessing when it went out of business someone locked access to the property so nobody could take anything and the bankers didn't want to bother.
No kids or anyone snooped around enough in 20+ years to find it. So strange.
I mean, it was locked up pretty well, random kids walking around wouldn't be carrying the tools needed to break in.
@@BritishTeaLoveryou underestimate the power of teenagers when it comes to destroying shit
Mikey seems to be a loyal friend and hard worker!!
Ya, Mikey is so cool and awesome. Glad Matt can find awesome friends.
We love MIkey. Love his energy.
We all love Mikey. Up for anything Matt can throw at him. What a guy. ❤
Just so you know, what’s listed on the menu isn’t the cost of the bottle… like Meiomi is $20 a bottle in the stores but at a resort or restaurant it’s around $44
Retail markup is 1.5 times wholesale and in the restaurant its 3 times wholesale unless they are the really high end bottles.
Collab with the guys from Whiskey Tribe? They’re out of the Austin area and like doing experiments making whiskeys. Might even be able to sell some bottles
Ok so it won’t be whiskey, it would technically be brandy. There’s a chance it’s not possible since there may no longer be any alcohol content left to distill. But definitely call the Crowded Barrel Whiskey Company in Austin. They love weird experiments and have lots of experience.
The alcohol should still be there, just oxidized making it taste like ass until it's distilled.
It's awesome that they let Mikey run free in the pasture. In his natural habitat. Can we get a Mikey appreciation fan club already? Also, I never thought I would hear Matt say "I hope he gets ploughed by a ram" 0.o I'm not sure that means what you think it means Matt 😂
*Insert Archer "Phrasing" .gif here.*
Yes distill it (or bring it to a distiller) PS. Wine make brandy (fruits). Grains makes whiskey. ‘’Desperado Ranch Exclusive Brandy”.
This is not wine, it’s vinegar. Zero alcohol left.
@Sophie-and-Ken I bet there is still some alcohol but it is very little.
The temperatures that wine storage room reached probably ruined every single bottle, regardless of whether they were on their sides or any other conditions.
That was my first thought when he said that
I was going to say the same thing.
I agree. It is too bad as there were some potentially great bottles there.
I think so too.
Ywa I think they knew that the second they qalked into the riom
Opus one is an extremely expensive wine. That box is probably very valuable! I would definitely be careful with that box because that box alone, is probably worth about $1000 with the wine inside of it.
Not too expensive really, compared to others. Less than $400 a bottle. And those boxes come for free when you order a six pack, so they're not really worth much. If you want to get your hands on one, call a high end restaurant. They typically order lots of that wine.
As a former food and beverage manager at a resort, generally speaking alcohol costs are only about 21% from the distributer. Wine purchased in bulk will be even less. And often those random cases not on the wine list are free promotional items. From experience that was probably a few thousand dollars worth of wine.
Yeah, you beat me to it, the markup for a restaurant on wine is massive. Those $200 bottles are probably $70 retail.
You’re right about the markup, unfortunately It doesn’t matter, they are all worthless because of the temperatures they’ve been exposed to!
I wonder who is going to start taking the hospitality business classes; cause none of these guys have a clue about restaurants or hotels other than eating and sleeping.
@@Tony-InLosAngeles Yup, that 's rather obvious, huh?
Watching and paying attention to the quality of edits gives me so much more appreciation for the longer videos
Would be cool to see you design/build some kind of wine bottle wall with the bottles you can't salvage
Just a thought. You brought up turning the burned down building into a restaurant and in this video you mentioned a burger for lunch and beer with dinner. You have a lot of land obviously. Partner with a distillery and build a new distillery and brewery on the resort. Now you got Desperado whiskey, beer, ect. Available at the restaurant and even offer bottles/cans in a gift shop/resort store for people to buy and take home or just keep in their room during their stay. Just a thought that could be very profitable and also cool to have and single this resort out even more from others
Demo Ranch Distillery, Desperado Distillery
@@jeffv536 exactly
You need to get in touch with the guys at Whiskey Tribe! I'm sure they can help
I love Ray Jay he makes the best films
Opus One is incredible. One of the best winery tours I've ever been on. Sitting in the heat for years - sad.
11:38 The Perrier Jouët - The Fleur de Champagne is on the list right above the Dom Perignon you just pointed out. My guess is that the wooden case of Opus One is the most valuable thing you have there. A case of six like that will fetch around €2500 (€3000) over here. My guess is that the wine cellar was way too hot so they might be spoilt.
Opus, Turnbull, BV Tapestry or Georges III, unbelievable that someone could be that ignorant on storing Wines in this manner. What a waste….🔥💣👈🍷
Empty the bottles and lay on their sides to make a statement wall. The sun coming through the bottles would be beautiful!
If you’re using menu prices you aught to divide it by 3. There’s usually a 300% markup on bottles. It’s been pretty standard to do it for a while too.
If you distill the alcohol out of the wine you have brandy/cognac depending on the type of wine and how you distill and cut the alcohol. Really old high dollar wine turned to vinegar can in some instances be almost as valuable as old wine.
So funny to hear and see German language as a native speaker :D BTW No.574 should be written as "Piesporter Goldtröpfechen". Directly translatet means Goldtröpfchen gold droplet. May be just marketing or it is namend after the growing area :) Nearly all wines from your menu under section Germany seems to come from one of our federal states "Saarland". Its in the west of Germany. Famous for wine. Mosel and Saar are two rivers in that state as well. Pflaz is also knowen for very good wines. Pflaz is a region of another state calles Rheinland-Pflaz. Recommendation for all wine lovers :) Best from Frankfurt am Main
Als Pfälzer frage ich mich wo die Pflaz ist...
About to pass out for my grave shift. Matt drops video I'm wide wake.
Ong 😂😂😂😂
same
He’s about to go to sleep for working the night shift. Matt drops a video and he’s wide awake. Me too!!’
Of course Mere is around when wine is involved 🤣🤣🤣
When I worked in a warehouse for a liquor distributor, those bag in a box bladders piss for a week when the get a small hole in them. 😁
Another good channel to get ahold of for info on what to do with the wine would be "Still It". He is based in New Zealand and has quite a bit of experience with making spirits from random things. Other youtubers have used his advise to good effect.
Matt should contact the whiskey tribe. Would make for a great Collab between the channels
Can we just take a second to appreciate the editor? The b roll transitions are incredible.
I would say it is still probably Mat, but idk.
Maybe he has an editor now.
@@Modelo646 Man has dozens of employees by now. And multiple businesses to manage, i'd like to think he still does it himself but it's fairly unlikely and for him probably something that would take up a lot of valuable time better invested elsewhere. idk props if he still does it tho
Matt, I sell wine in Alabama to various retailers for over the past 15 years. I see multiple gems there. It would be fun to rate what you have what cost is like, versus the retail on the menus in the past. There is some cool/great stuff there, vast majority is probably not in ideal condition, but some may have survived. Love what you do, very fun to watch!
Surely nothing is going to have survived that heat cycling to still be drinkable, or almost nothing, no matter is quality. For unopened/non drinkable collector value some of it might work.
Props to the editor! The bottle dings added into the music was sick
Get those dudes from Moonshiners in on it :) Mark and Digger love doing crazy things with alcohol.
I love your videos, and I’m a huge wine fan…. Having said this, all these bottles are in different stages of decay. Fun to watch you discover them all, but these are not for consumption. When it runs brown, it’s not a good sign.
Maybe you should reach out to the fellows at Whiskey Tribe and ask them if theyre up for it
Floaters in old wine is natural. The "tannins" gather together & smooth the wine out, which is why you decant an aged wine (so you don't accidentally pour chunks/tannins in your glass). But.... heat is a killer.
tannins are an astringent mouthfeel that gives you a 'puckering' sensation similar to sour candies. not an object. the chunks are natural sediments from the wine making process. dead yeast cells, tartaric acid crystals, parts of the grape, etc.
A friend of mine worked at Windows on the World in 1983- the restaurant at the top of the original World Trade Center. Lauren Bacall, the actress, came in one day for lunch with her entourage; they ordered two bottles of Perrier Jouet champagne. The cost in 1983 was $500.00 per bottle.
Wowza.❤🎉 loving this show. Yup dont need TV . UA-cam has it all and better! This will be a kong project with many projects for years Im sure but keep filming plenty. We r loving it! Love from Alberta
There is a company in Texas that does weird whisky experiments, maybe they are open for it. It's Crowded barrel distillery
Hard YES the peoples saying colab with the Whiskey Tribe!!!!!!!!
The way Mere throws wine glasses... hope you find a stash of them as well.
Heck, if they smash them all, they should collect the glass and have a glassblower make Resort Ornaments
Hey, Matt! My dad was one of the highest volume liquor and wine salesmen for the 2nd largest distributor in West Coast, and he said those Opus bottles WOULD HAVE been worth $500/bottle if they didn't have that leakage and red spots on the tissue paper.
well matt now has a 1,000 new targets for the range !!!
You can distill wine again to make brandy but be careful of the varieties that you mix together or your flavors might be horrible. Make small batches first before a larger run. Save the bottles as many are collectors items, especially the hand painted champagne bottles from France. You can display or sell later
You can’t distill vinegar.
@@Sophie-and-Ken For the love of god please tell me this is sarcasm.. These days i highly doubt it
yes the hand painted bottles are some of the best champagne in france peoples keep them as souvenirs 😊
Y'ALL!!! RED ALERT!! You gotta reach out to the Whisk(e)y Tribe who are literal EXPERTS on makin funky and new whiskies. They run a nonprofit educational side as well. Best of all, THEY'RE IN AUSTIN. PLEASE please reach out to them
Edit: Accidental Profanity
The wine would make a super cool display
ok weird but cool idea... you could have the wine bottles that are bad cut, so they are drinking glasses so your not having to waste glass, but you also get glass wear for the resort and its a little piece of history for the place... just an idea i thought you would like
That would be cool!
You can use the bottles as decoration for the resort
Check some of the bottles that were on there sides. Especially the ones in the wooden box. Those actually may ztill well be good. They were sealed from any exposure to air and the vorks should eb in awesome shape.
Whiskey tribe would be perfect for this! I'm sure they would love to collaborate with you on something like this.
Some of those bottles might still be worth something as displays honestly.
The hand painted Perrier bottles are definitely worth something even empty because of their age and beauty!
You should use all of the bottles to make a bottle stucco wall for a patio on the new ranch. Maybe for part of a breakfast/coffee patio area?
Who ever edits these videos always puts crazy music over something simple to make it seem its crazy love to see it lol
Any idea what is the song at the end?
It’s been 20 seconds and can confirm it’s a off the ranch classic
Its a spoonkid classic
The Raycon commercial?
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Mhhhmmm raycon commercial is all time
Whiskey tribe would definitely be one of the best people to ask. In my opinion
I hope most of them are still good!
1:49 for future reference, if you ever want to prevent change from popping and breaking a window, take a tire run the chain through it make sure that the Tire is greater than half the distance of the total length of chain that way if it breaks free and whips over the tire will stop it
I will pass that on to my cousin who works on a ranch. If he had not chosen the old backhoe loader with the half ass cage he would have been decapitated.
aint nobody got time fo that
@philthethotdestroyer4194 😂 we just lift the hood up so the hood will catch it not the windshield
We always just used a carhartt jacket to accomplish this same thing... they make "winch blankets" for this reason... the blanket is weighted...
The safest way to use chains is to use them for the purpose they are designed to be used. Your example only provides protection for a breaks that occur after the tire, what about a break occurring before the tire, which is at a higher risk to occur from the added force from the weight of the tire now being applied to a single chain.
Alcohol distilled from wine produces brandy or grappa. Whisky is distilled from fermented grains, essentially beer.
Ripping out those vintage wooden wine cellars doors killed the Hvac refer tech in me. If they aren’t damaged I want them
It's funny they destroyed those valuable doors to get to the worthless wine.
@@NCHeel fr those doors are very valuable to the right person.
I remember OPUS ONE from my wines course in culinary school, and then became very familiar with it throughout my restaurant career...tastes amazing and its worth a ton new let alone from 02'
Yeah if it wasn't stored in heat and ruined.
Amanda Bryant she is awesome . Let her work her magic
Can't believe they just left a box of Opus behind, those are like 1k each now. Even if you distill it, it'll never be whiskey since it's from grapes, but you can make brandy. See what craft distillery is around you and get their thoughts!
The problem withthe wine is it hasn't been in a temperature controlled environment. I think they're mainly toast. Mikey is so funny! I can see why you're friends!
It’s all worthless because of the temperatures it’s been exposed to, so sad!
We still love mikey he is just amazing
Perkins Brothers Building needs to do a cabin build!! That would be a great colab! Wholesome family friendly awesome guys!
Mikey is a definitely a fan favorite
Raycon should be a permanent sponsor for you! That commercial was the funniest demonstration of their products I have ever seen! 😂
Technically it would be brandy if you distilled it. I'm pretty sure I was the first to suggest this on the original video too😊 glad to see that's the route you're wanting to take. You won't regret it, take my word.
The Opus One crate is a gem!!! Drink it!
I wonder if they have a “Don’t Tell Mere-lot” branded wine in the lot?🤣
Great idea! Too funny! 😂
Matt should auction these bottles off, all proceeds go to charity, and everyone that wins a bottle enters a giveaway for a week stay at the resort (when its done up some more)
Nobody wants to buy corked wine.
@@seanbeck3042 true, but a charity auction would be a lovely idea, and some of it will be fine. It doesn’t need to be all of them either.
Thats way more hassle then its worth, he would need a liquor license to be able to sell any of it, and opens him up to countless lawsuits when the people who buy it inevitably drink it and get sick.
Bro the way you write the number 7 from the bottom up is the most insane thing in this video
I love Mikey's energy. He's the ultimate hype man!
A shame....the Opus One mini crate...ugh (up to $500/bottle) and the Perrier Jouet "Flower Bottle" could have fetched a good price as well. The lack of being properly stored = all the whites are rotten and the reds are, at best, vinegar. Curious to see if there really is a way to make a distilled 'something' that won't offend/poison anybody...lol. Great content. Thanks to Matt and the crew for another great video 😁
First comment that reflects the real loss here
Broke my heart to see that Opus box.😢 what a waste of some excellent wine. So many of those bottles wasted . I worked for a winery and they created wine caves downstairs that were naturally occurring 50° to protect the wine barreled down there whether there was power or not.
@@lleet21t56 yup the opus, and the decent champagne. I'm from Europe so cannot judge on the local, sometimes excellent, wines.
Whiskey Tribe! Whiskey Tribe! Whiskey Tribe!
@@MyLibertyTV Whisky ??? Shots fired😉
Types of brandys is made from wine bases,viskey is made from grain bases
That wine is vinegar so, no alcohol so you can’t distill it. The ethanol in the wine was then converted to acetic acid and you now have vinegar. You may be able to save some of the bottle which may have value if very rare. Other than being decorative they are trash. Most likely they fridge was turned off or broke and wine went bad before closing. It’s beyond bad now.
Was going to say basically the same thing. The heat caused a chemical reaction that is impossible to reverse.
Makes sense, I have been in a wine cellar that had bottles hundreds of years old, and all the bottles were on their side, the only thing that might be a problem would be the heat.
The heat is not a "might be a problem", its the Wayne Gretzky of problems for wine storage.
That Opus One is outstanding, hands down my favorite red.
🤯 that’s still a incredible find! Loving this series. Can’t wait to see the completed resort
Greatest video ever......not, but was alot of fun!! Thanks!
Matt, you should make a 10 hour uncut video😂
I’d prefer closer to 15 hours.
The Opus One flagship wine is worth $350 to $1,900 per bottle. Meanwhile, the Opus One second wine, the Overture, costs $140 to $180 per bottle.
"Dust on the bottle" is such an amazing song!!!
I'm no pro distiller but I do distill the same way my grandad taught me and I can say flat out you will NOT get whiskey from distilling wine, however if you distill it 3 or 4 times (or in a reflux column still) you might get some damn fine brandy out of it.
It can be distilled into Whisky or Vodka, with vodka being more common. It provides a fruity flavor that is becoming more popular.
@@ProjectKnowledge4UOf course it can’t be distilled into whisky. Whisky is, by definition, a spirit distilled from grains (a distilled beer if you will). If you distill wine, you’ll get brandy.
@@AutomotiveRomance Okay, let's look at the science. There are 4 basic types of alcohol ethyl, denatured, isopropyl and rubbing. The one that we drink and love is ethyl alcohol, also called ethanol or grain alcohol. It's made by fermenting sugar and yeast in a process that results in beer, wine, and liquor. You can distill alcohol from beer, wine and liquor, because the chemical compounds of ethyl alcohol is the same. The structural formula of ethyl alcohol is C2H5OH and it is the same formula for the alcohol in beer, wine and liquor. Alcohol boils at 173f, so why can't it be distilled into whisky, Beer and wine have a much lower alcohol content then liquor, but liquor is not 100% alcohol. An 80 proof bottle of whisky contains 40% alcohol, and why can't a part of that 40% come from the alcohol that was sourced from wine? It's basic chemistry! I do understand the standards that Whisky is distilled grains, but that feints jar gets added all the same!
@@ProjectKnowledge4U Did you not read what I wrote? It has nothing to do with the science behind distillation. If it’s distilled from a (cereal) grain based fermentation (beer) it can be called whisky. If it’s distilled from a fruit based fermentation (wine) it can’t be called whisky, but is called brandy. If the ethanol in the spirit comes from something other than (cereal) grains, it simply can’t be called whisky but is another spirit. These definitions are age old and in most countries around the world they are even legal definitions.
@@AutomotiveRomance I will say you are absolutely right, I know you are right, I know what whisky is, but there are a growing number of distillers who are sourcing alcohol as a cost saving measure. Go north of the border or south of the border, and you will see what I am talking about.
Nice find.... The Opus One Prime Cellar Lists for 400+ USD a bottle. However the storage was, at best, 'highly questionable.' Most of the wines will not be good as the storage temperature fluctuation was extreme. You just might get lucky with a few of the sparkling wines, for personal consumption.
The Port might have survived as well, being a fortified wine. Extra alcohol inhibits vinegar creation. Could still be ruined though.
@@SA12String Actually Port is the only 'wine' that travels well. If the corks are OK it is probably still good.
@@madmanmancuso4827 $6 1ltr bottle has me dubious that it was ever good.