carbon monoxide poisoning from home brew distillery

TALK about too much wine — two people will have one monster of hangover this morning after their home wine-making setup left them with carbon monoxide poisoning last night. The pair was rushed to hospital with suspected poisoning, believed to have started from a home brew distillery set up inside their home.
Emergency services were called to the Kingsford home just after 9.30pm after reports of two people injured from an exposure to an unknown chemical.
Maroubra fire station officer Cameron Northey said paramedics treated the pair at the scene before taking them to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.
“Upon arrival, fire service, ambulance and police found two occupants who had been overcome, at this stage by unknown chemicals or fumes,” he said.
“We found after carrying out thorough tests through our hazmat appliance that there were large CO levels which have now diminished.”
He said it was too soon to determine how they came to be poisoned by the carbon monoxide, but early indications suggested it was from a distillery set up in the house to make wine.
“There was seen to be some sort of distillery process for grape wine making, we’re assuming that possibly during the combustion process the CO levels may have risen and, without adequate ventilation, the two occupants might have been overcome.”
Their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

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Love how the media get even the basics wrong and have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.

Making wine does not involve a distillery in any way shape or form, it's a natural process of fermentation.

My guess is from the writers uneducated rambing is that the persons involved would have been distilling something (probably fermented fruit/grapes etc) to produce, grappa, schnapps, or some other sort of distilled alcohol.

CO poisoning? Were they using combustion as a heat source without adequate oxygen for a proper burn?

Sounds like they were poisoned by stupidity. Increasing cost of alcohol will have more dodgy moonshine setups and the govt doesn't want that. Proper moonshine setups are perfectly safe, allegedly...

Yep, sounds like grappa or derivative to me. No way is it simply wine. Although wine making does not involve distillation, the fermentation of grapes does give off carbon dioxide which can make you crook. But I can't see these guys having huge open vats fermenting away, lol.