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Fine wine is usually aged in oak barrels stored on their sides in hillside caverns on dry land.
Napa winemaker Mira is experimenting with undersea wine aging.
Years ago, archaeologists removed wine bottles from a shipwreck. On a whim, one tasted some of the recovered wine.
( home page of the "Aquaoir" movement; blog post with some ongoing experiments )
Napa winemaker Mira is experimenting with undersea wine aging.
Years ago, archaeologists removed wine bottles from a shipwreck. On a whim, one tasted some of the recovered wine.
... While searching for gold coins and other treasures on the sunken RMS Republic off the coast of Massachusetts, divers found bottles of wine that were on board when it sank in 1909. The quality of the wine found in these and many other “discoveries” suggest the wine was actually enhanced by the underwater elements.
These discoveries inspired three Frenchmen to ask a simple question: Does the sea hold the secret to truly great wines? ...
In 1978 professional diver Bill Kinsey recovered wine described as “incredibly good” from a British sailing ship that sank in 30 feet of water near the mouth of the Savannah Channel in 1840. ...
( home page of the "Aquaoir" movement; blog post with some ongoing experiments )