Fact: Australia loves the big things. There’s The Big Prawn, The Big Kookaburra, The Big Pineapple, The Big Avocado and The Big Banana to name just a few of the more majestic monstrous fibreglass monuments which dot our landscape. But did you know of the best Big Thing of all? The one that’s sadly no longer with us? That would be The Big Wine Cask, a thing we only just discovered a few minutes ago.
The now-dead big monument to the poor decisions you made as a fifteen year old was erected a few years back at the BRL Stanley Winery in Buronga, New South Wales. The cask was 8 metres high, 11 metres long and 7 metres wide and could theoretically hold up to 400 000 litres of the most putrid drink imaginable (yay?). Its original purpose was as a water purifying plant for the winery but in a stroke of marketing genius was magnificently transformed into the big Australian tourist attraction most likely to cause the gag reflex.
Sadly, it would eventually dry up and make its way into the big esky in the sky in late 2012 when parent company Accolade Wines, formerly Constellation Brands, rebranded itself.
“It’s just it was painted to look like a cask and our casks don’t look like that anymore,” public relations manager Anita Poddar said at the time. “We’ve taken the decision that you’ve got to be consistent in your branding…it doesn’t represent our brands.”
So long Big Wine Cask, we hardly knew ye.
Via Reddit
