Posted on 04/20/2015 7:38:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin
So...it tasted like kissing Madonna?
Sunken champagne ping...
Or a John Madden game ball.
I went to Le Bec Fin some years ago and shared a bottle of wine that had been pulled from a shipwreck
Around $20k and since I wasn’t paying, I was high drinking something that was older than our country.
I think the ship went down in 1772.
To kewel.
How would the iron from nails of the barrels have gotten into the bottles?
Maybe the nails go all the way through the barrel slats.
I went to Le Bec Fin some years ago and shared a bottle of wine that had been pulled from a shipwreck
Around $20k and since I wasn’t paying, I was high drinking something that was older than our country.
I think the ship went down in 1772.
To kewel.
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Was it good?
I had lunch at Le Bec Fin years ago.
Fun time. Tiny plates of utterly delicious food, course after course, that actually filled me up, too.
The wine wasn't pulled from a shipwreck, but for the cost it might as well have been. Food too, for that matter. Something like fifty bucks a grape. Oh well, that's what special occasions are for.
Possibly something like galvanic corrosion; copper and iron and seawater can react.
I saw a bad case of something like that with a copper domestic water system; a bladderless galvanized tank corroded through like crazy at the waterline once the system got a few leaks.
That is pretty amazing actually. Was the wine pretty bitter though?
Did you get to Holt’s for a cigar after ?
Been there but, my friend only smokes weed...
LOL
I learned about Ashton Cigars there. Muh favorite.
No, it was good.
Not $20k good but, who cares...
LOL
We were so bombed, the next day we ordered the biggest limo, so we could lay down while being driven around.
It leeches in through the cork. Read a story one time about a diver drinking salvaged wine. He dropped dead almost at once after drinking it. Others noticed an almond smell from the bottle. Turned out that cyanide leeched in through the cork. Whatever chemicals or elements that are near the bottle in the wreck can come in.
Le Bec Fin or La Brassiere?
Cool story.
Someone doesn’t have a clue about cooperage; barrel making. There are NO nails used in making barrels. The edges of the staves were shaved to a precise angle, by hand and by the practiced eyeball of the cooper, so that they fit together perfectly and formed a circle, with the two ends of the barrel mitered into place as the staves were fitted, and all held together by the hoops.
The wine was poured into the barrel via the bunghole, which was then closed by driving a wooden plug into it. No idea where the iron came from, unless the wine was fermented in iron vessels or something. Or maybe the vineyard soil had high iron content. FWIW.
It was, surprisingly.
Though the photo in the accompanying article clearly shows bottles, which the champagne is presumably in.
Interesting about cooperage however.
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