Things got biblical earlier this week when residents of a small town in Italy found that their water had turned to wine.

The residents of Settecani, a small town in a popular wine region, turned on their showers to find red wine pouring out of the pipes.

According to Popular Mechanics, the free-flowing wine entered the pipes when the nearby Settecani Castelvetro Winery experienced a bit of a malfunction with its bottling line and an excess of Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro, a sparkling red wine, entered the town’s municipal water system.

The malfunction occurred when one of the cellar’s silos, which hold the wine before it’s transferred to barrels, broke down. Each silo can hold about 60 gallons (or 300 bottles) of wine, so that’s a whole lot of the good stuff in one cellar.

Check it out:

While it’s not ideal for washing anything, especially clothes, it’s still pretty cool.

Unfortunately for the small town, Hera (a waste disposal company) intervened following a report from the winery and the problem was solved.

The locals did manage to bottle a fair amount of wine before the leak was resolved.

I think we could all use a little wine on tap, at the moment.

[source:popularmechanics]