California Winery Ages Wine in Ocean
California Winery Ages Wine in Ocean
Feb 20, 2013 6
(ABCNews) - A winery is aging it’s wine where no U.S. bottle has gone before: at the bottom of the ocean.
Mira Winery, based in the Napa Valley, will drop four cases of 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon off the coast of the Charleston, S.C., harbor in specially-designed cages today.
“It was born of the fact that we saw that some European wineries had experiments with both aging wine and storing wine in the ocean which we found interesting,” Jim Dyke, president of Mira Winery told ABC News.
Dyke said that no American winery had aged wine like this before. Despite the Napa grapes, the company’s roots are in South Carolina and this influenced what ocean they chose.
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