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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

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.

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!

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

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!!!!

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 😂

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 😂😂

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.

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

really enjoying the editing style on these abandoned resort videos

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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. 😁

3:19 love the David Lee Murphy Reference! 👍

Thanks for the video glhf

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Alcohol distilled from wine produces brandy or grappa. Whisky is distilled from fermented grains, essentially beer.

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

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

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

Opus One! Wow, what a score!!

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

I love Ray Jay he makes the best films

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

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.

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

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

Ripping out those vintage wooden wine cellars doors killed the Hvac refer tech in me. If they aren’t damaged I want 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

Bunker Brandy!!! That would be so cool!

I really enjoy the videos with the whole crew in it

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

Thank you Mikey, keep being strong

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

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.

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

You can use the bottles as decoration for the resort

It is a real thing!! My wife and i were cleaning out a wine cellar. It had around 60 bottles of crab apple wine … it was crap but i managed to strip all the alcohol out with a keg still!!! Out of the 12ish gallons i ended up getting 5 gallons of pure alcohol…

You can actually buy a still online. My friend has one and brews shelf quality whiskey. You can run your wine through one and it will work fine

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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 just spoke to a friend who has a restaurant and I asked them what happens to wine when it gets hot. She said anything over 80° for even a short period of time cooks the flavor out of it. It's pasteurized and sealed so the risk of food poisoning is minimal but other than that it's flavor is done.

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'

19:28 The Whiskey Tribe!! On youtube! They are the best in Texan Whiskey! By far! And they are crazy like yall! Its perfect!

Hard YES the peoples saying colab with the Whiskey Tribe!!!!!!!!

Your drone work is always excellent!