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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

Matt should collaborate with the whiskey tribe to turn all the wine into whiskey.

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.

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!

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.

If nothing else. You'll have a "How many bottles of wine does it take to stop a 50cal" video.

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!

Seems like Matt needs to make a new wine cellar deep underground so even if it loses power it can stay "relatively" cool

The teenagers in that town are a disgrace, that they failed to find that liquor.

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!!!!

The wine bottle edit when Jen picked the bottle off the top shelf was pretty sweet!

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.

I feel like Whiskey Tribe needs to connect with Matt and do a "Will it Distill?" episode with these wines.

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.

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

Would be cool to see you design/build some kind of wine bottle wall with the bottles you can't salvage

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 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.

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 😂

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

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.

really enjoying the editing style on these abandoned resort videos

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.

Mikey seems to be a loyal friend and hard worker!!

The temperatures that wine storage room reached probably ruined every single bottle, regardless of whether they were on their sides or any other conditions.

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?

Jenna with the "slap the bag". Love it!! I was sitting here thinking same thing. Yes we smashed many box/bag wines that way 😂😂

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.

That looks like a LOT of good targets for the range!

Watching and paying attention to the quality of edits gives me so much more appreciation for the longer videos

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.

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- I own a distillery in Iowa, we run a pot still. We have worked with a winery before distilling their wine mash- interesting profile. Wildcat Distilling Co.

You need to get in touch with the guys at Whiskey Tribe! I'm sure they can help

Can we just take a second to appreciate the editor? The b roll transitions are incredible.

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.

Wow lots of old wine bottles, great for collectors!😉

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. 😁

Wowza.❤🎉 loving this show. Yup dont need TV . KZfaq 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

also the Mondavi Chilean wine is amazing too! My Dad owned a liquor store and I've definitely tried many of those good ones!

That Opus One is outstanding, hands down my favorite red.

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 One is incredible. One of the best winery tours I've ever been on. Sitting in the heat for years - sad.

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

"Dust on the bottle" is such an amazing song!!!

Yes distill it (or bring it to a distiller) PS. Wine make brandy (fruits). Grains makes whiskey. ‘’Desperado Ranch Exclusive Brandy”.

The way Mere throws wine glasses... hope you find a stash of them as well.

I agree with the comment about the feature wall idea. In that burned out building if you turn it into something great.

I strive to be as happy as Mikey is all the time.

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.

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.

Whiskey Tribe are your guys for this, there in Texas and are willing to try off the wall things just like this!

I love Ray Jay he makes the best films

There is a company in Texas that does weird whisky experiments, maybe they are open for it. It's Crowded barrel distillery

Whiskey Tribe might be an option. A good colab at least.

I wonder sometimes how you have lived as long as you have Matt with the things you do lol ( I’ve stopped just as you have hooked the cellar door up - I haven’t seen the outcome yet lol)

Empty the bottles and lay on their sides to make a statement wall. The sun coming through the bottles would be beautiful!

Maybe you should reach out to the fellows at Whiskey Tribe and ask them if theyre up for it

Props to the editor! The bottle dings added into the music was sick

Hi, i just watched the video here in Germany and just identified one of the wine. Its from the cousin of my sister in law. That winery ist called Fritz Haag (seen in 3:02). Its funny that a small winery from Brauneberg at the River "Mosel" is a part of the Abandoned Resort.

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.

I’ve been watching every single video recently in absolutely loving it!!!

I really enjoy the videos with the whole crew in it

Thank you Mikey, keep being strong

Dude the editing is fire as always

loading the wine in the truck when the wine is worming at the sun!!! amazing ideal

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

Get those dudes from Moonshiners in on it :) Mark and Digger love doing crazy things with alcohol.

Chilean here, That Seña wine was delicious when put on the market!!! BTW, wine prices have inflated waaaaay more than regular inflation. Take that same wine for example. It was less than $100 in the US, and now it goes for $350 here in Chile. So I guess your true total would be much more when properly adjusted.

Hasn't heard of opus one....omg, you hit the jackpot there!!!

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'

That Roederer was a nice bottle in it's day. When you total the on premises retail value of the wine you need to multiply by .33 to get the cost.

3:19 love the David Lee Murphy Reference! 👍

Some of those bottles might still be worth something as displays honestly.

Matt, check out “Escape to rural France “. Dan is renovating a small, burned out chateau, if he can do it , you can do something with those cool walls.

Greatest video ever......not, but was alot of fun!! Thanks!

Duse your camera/ video editor makes the best freakin B roll on youtube hands down.

About to pass out for my grave shift. Matt drops video I'm wide wake.

Love how the girls come back for the wine episode. Jokes, love what you do thanks for continuing to make content that we all so enjoy!

Matt throws the pen, Jenna: Matt! *eye rolls* like a mother when her kids are being dumb. Jenna is definitely Mother Demo. She keeps all the children in line.

When I was younger I worked at a recycling place for one day on assignment from a job agency. The assignment was 'wine destruction'. In the morning a semi trailer pulled up and off loaded dozens of pallets of wine. We proceeded to throw boxes of wine on to a conveyor that all got crushed in front of us - the smell was crazy as this was all done in a tin shed and if I recall was the hottest day of the year (43 celsius). A few pallets had some really old bottles in some of the boxes; like crazy 50 years old. Other pallets also had boxes that had bonus blocks of dark chocolate attached - all in the bin it went (I recall a bail/bin full of bars of chocolate by the end of the day). We even had a security guard looking over us working. anyhow..

It’s been 20 seconds and can confirm it’s a off the ranch classic

Matt should contact the whiskey tribe. Would make for a great Collab between the channels

The Opus One crate is a gem!!! Drink it!

Opus One! Wow, what a score!!

🤯 that’s still a incredible find! Loving this series. Can’t wait to see the completed resort

Your drone work is always excellent!

Shooting range glass targets, or male a glass wall when you build back

Thanks for the video glhf

I hope most of them are still good!

Raycon should be a permanent sponsor for you! That commercial was the funniest demonstration of their products I have ever seen! 😂

Use the bottles for an accent wall in the open ambient restaurant!!

Milam and Greene Whiskey is located in Blanco, Tx. They do some fun experimental stuff!

Definitely hit up Whiskey Tribe, they can probably make brandy with a ton of that wine. The fact that a lot of it is varietal matched (cabernet sauvignon) would make the process even simpler.

Hey Matt! Trail riding could be an attraction. There’s a lot of ADV guys that would LOVE to ride some central Texas trails and camp out. Just a thought.

You need to get a hold of the crowded barrel in Austin

WHISKEY TRIBE!!!!! They are in Texas too, that would be a fantastic collab!