At least 4 dropped and 3 broken over the years. I do not want to recall what they were.
2009 Overnoy-Houillon Arbois Pupillin Savagnin (Yellow capsule), dropped/broke bottle in 2018
2001 Marquis d’Angerville Clos des Ducs 1.5L, dropped/shattered in 2021
OUCH and ouch!
2014 Voyat Le Muraglie. Fell 3 inches in a box that was laying on the floor and the bottom of the bottle sheared straight off.
I was doing some cellar management and broke a $10 riesling. It had to be the cheapest bottle that I owned at the time. I considered myself very lucky.
I haven’t dropped or broken any yet but I’ve come close a couple of times, usually when organizing at my offsite or in my basement from either clanging bottles off of each other or off of the side of the lockers/racks.
A 750cl bottle of Yquem 1967… at least the insurance took care of the financial damage.
2 dropped. One broke (nothing expensive). The other was a 2019 Vogue Musigny I was putting away…managed to get my toe between the bottle and the ground. Worth the fat toe.
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Dropped a magnum of '95 Forman Cab. What a mess.
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Francois Audouze told a story on Insta yesterday where he dropped a bottle of 1900 Margaux and did what any self-respecting wine geek would do. Licked the floor.
The good news is that he was able to console himself with a bottle of 1919 Lafite (think it was Lafite).
To sum it up… I wish I could be Francois for just one day 
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Lugged a magnum of Monteabellón Finca Matambres from Ribero del Duero to the States in my suitcase. I was unpacking and clinked it against my tile floor, shattering it everywhere. RIP.
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My then 4 year old son knocked over a '72 Arnoux VR Chaumes that was standing on the floor of the cellar. He was more upset than I was. LOL. He’s 19 now…
I dropped a 2012 Gonon St Joseph magnum a couple of years ago. The cellar smelled AMAZING for days…
Long ago a bottle of Marquis-Phillips Integrity. More recently, Giradin Corton Charlie. It just barely missed a bottle of MACDONALD so I didn’t feel too bad.
Expensive bottle of Tesseron cognac set down on counter too hard and bottom of bottle separated from rest of bottle. Whoosh!
Daughter age 3 grabbed a bottle of BdM Corton Charlemagne and dropped it in garage. Whoosh!
1.75 liter b of Willett bourbon bumped a second bottle in garage and: whoosh!
Probably others.
Dropped two, broken 3. had a cheapo from costco fall out of tailgate in the driveway.
have double depth racking in a section, once had a 2001 Usseglio slip through the middle gap which broke and took out a 2000 vieux donjon on the way down. lots of wine stained labels below.
I’ve dropped bottles. I know this is not what you’re looking for, but the epic was when my friend Steve at the warehouse toppled an entire pallet of 75 cases when we were unloading a 40 ft container. He turned the forklift too fast and the photo was the end result. Then he had to leave and I had to clean it all up and reassemble the pallet. In the end there was only 1 bottle broken but I had to repack several cases because of the wine staining the cases.
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I had just gotten back from a NAPA trip and was loading wine in my locker and dropped an 07 paradigm Merlot. At the time my locker was at a wine store that had a storage facility. I walk next-door and told them please order me three more and they did. The biggest casualty was the wine locker below me that was full of hundred acre in OWC that got stained with paradigm Merlot
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I’m sure Adam Frisch could chime in.
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1999 La Pousse d’Or Volnay 1er Cru Clos des 60 Ouvrées
Grabbed a different bottle from Eurocave. I can still see the slow motion replay of this one sliding from the back row toward a tile floor.
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Magnum of Kracher in the garage. As upsetting as that was, the garage smelled wonderful for over a week.
Dumped a pallet of Heinz ketchup (those big bottles they used to make) when I was in the grocery business.
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We also specialize in breaking stemware
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