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I’m not a sparkling wine fan, but I would be curious to taste this.
“From the refreshing citrus tones to a mineral salty finish, like an oyster...”
What? I paid good money for some KELP undertones! ;)
OK, a saber open is a bit dramatic.
I wonder if there was any fear that marine borer worms would have attacked the cork, or if extra lead protection was added to keep them away from the cork?
I thought this was a longer-term experiment. Bottled in 2018 and spent the last six months under 110 feet of water. Five years, give or take, and only a fraction of under novel conditions. Doesn’t sound much different than five years in a similarly controlled cellar.
I remember an old National Geographic in which they dredged up unbroken wine bottles from Port Royal Jamaica which sank in an earthquake in 1692.
In tasting the wine, using a hypodermic to draw the wine out, the said it tasted either oniony or skunky.
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Oh hell no. Bottle breach.
The one flavor that should never be in a sparkling wine.
If they use it for anything but cooking on their rafts, demand a refund.
Pressure is mentioned. But sparkling wine is already in a pressurized container. A standard corked bottle is supposed to allow a minuscule exchange between the air pocket in the bottle and the atmosphere, which is one reason wines meant to be kept for many years are corked, not capped. But again, sparkling wines are sealed in a pressurized container. And the admission of seawater into corked wine is unlikely to improve it.
The value of sparkling wines brought up from century old wrecks in cold wateri is their rarity, and that they have been stored constantly in a cold, dark, place.
If you plan to store sparkling wine in Norway for 150 years, then doing so at the bottom of ocean may be a good idea, if you can somehow keep the location sealed until all the time has passed. It will be safe from being sold by a CEO with a short term outlook, looted by invading Nazis, or warming up in the torpid Norwegian summer, because Grimacing Greta persuaded the populace to dismantle their electrical grid.
[singing] what do you do with a drunken sailor...
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