Beetle in my unopened bottle of wine!

[Botafogo]

Don't forget, wine is an agricultural product, not bicycle parts. Things happen.

Once, when I was the beverage director at Antoine's in New Orleans, we opened a case of Sancerre (hmmmmm, is there a conspiracy in the Loire?) and found TWO bottles that had museum exhibition quality examples of REALLY large, multi-hued and quite beautiful stinkbugs in them.

In that case I chalked it up to a disgruntled employee at a giant negociant as it could NOT have been accidental. But, no one got hurt and we got a BIG chortle our of chilling one and pulling it out to serve it to the distributor when he came looking for a check!

Question, did you not see it when you took it our of the case to put in the fridge? In any case, a replacememt bottle is the answer, not litigating everyone from here to Rome about it.

Roberto