Frog in a bottle

A woman in Leicestershire got more than she bargained for when she opened a bottle of Spanish Moscatel de Valencia for a family celebration, only to find a dead frog falling into her glass as she poured the wine.

Isolde Beesley is suing the UK supermarket chain Asda after buying the bottle of wine from their supermarket – which allegedly contained the frog. She says she has suffered stomach pains ever since the incident and has hired lawyers to pursue a claim for compensation.

Asda, who has removed the wine from their shelves and is conducting an investigation, says it has rigorous inspection procedures in its bottling plants and that it is “virtually impossible” for a frog to enter a wine bottle during the bottling process and that they are taking this case “very seriously”.

Ms Beesley has since handed in the frog and bottle to her local environmental health department for analysis. Luckily nobody at the dinner party “croaked”!