(AP) -- Nearly 100,000 gallons of red wine spilled from a tank at a vineyard in Sonoma County and eventually leaked into the Russian River.
The Press Democrat reported the cabernet sauvignon -- enough to fill eight large tanker trucks -- spilled at the Rodney Strong Vineyards in Healdsburg Wednesday after a door near the bottom of a large blending tank popped open.
The wine went into a sanitary sewer system on the property, to a drainage ditch that feeds into Reiman Creek and eventually to the Russian River, affecting water quality in the 110-mile tributary flowing into the Pacific Ocean.
According to the Press Democrat, water quality officials and fish and wildlife officials are investigating the incident.
