Wignalls Wines owner ‘broken’ after lithium-ion battery fire burns warehouse

A winemaker on the cusp of retirement has told of the “gut-wrenching” moment his cellar door was nearly destroyed in a lithium battery fire.

Rob Wignall, owner of Wignalls Wines in Albany on Western Australia’s southern coast, is about to close up shop after 45 years.

He was at his house on the…