A California Wine Company Had to Destroy 2,000 Bottles of Wine After Illegally Aging Them at the Bottom of the Ocean

Food and Wine website ^ | Aug 15, 2023 | By Jelisa Castrodale

[discostu]

Actually the fraud probably is that they didn’t have a business license. You can’t have people invest in a business that doesn’t exist. Without the license you don’t have a business. That’s investor fraud.

[Vaduz]

The glass bottles — the ones adorned with all of that flora and fauna — were taken to a recycling center.

Bookie took my bet they show up at many up coming D.C. events full.

[BipolarBob]

I guess auctioning for a “legal” charity never crossed anyone’s mind.

Clearly you're not from California. Pragmatism, clarity of thought and benevolence for others have long ago been abandoned for more 'enlightened' woke values.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

SC: I think you posted about this a while ago. Not that the wine had to be destroyed, but that they were aging it underwater.

[Getready]

Stupid as he** idea in the first place. Why did they even say where,? Could have easily been done anywhere to be at the “bottom” of the sea.
Some people will buy anything. Proving we haven’t hit rock bottom yet. But soon will.

[Falconspeed]

“submerge crates of its wine in the channel.” Wow. Wine growers need to be smarter and silly permits.

[ansel12]

Yep, I read the article and saw that and then saw it finally posted in your post 63.

From the article.
“On top of that, the company sold the wine without a business license, without an ABC alcohol sales permit, and it was collecting taxes from each purchase without paying the required taxes to the state.”

[Sir_Ed]

Funny!

[Organic Panic]

The Cali Coastal Commission is filled with the most ruthless petty tyrants in any state agency. Unless you are a big lefty celebrity you can’t even fart on your own property without those jerks getting involved.

[fini]

Things where we destroyed/wasted many thousands of dollars because it was much harder to get permission not to waste the items than to simply destroy them.

I have the perfect example of this. The govt organization I was with had over 4 million dollars of excess inventory. Much of that inventory really was not useful, e.g. specialty tools that no one could identify. We sent it to auction and the the total pay-off was less than $40,000. Shipping and packaging to the auction was +$50,000. We all knew this before hand. We asked if we could donate it to a charity if they would pick it up. But no- it might "not look good."

[sphinx]

In my young and crazy days, I’ve skipped stones into the water without a permit. Tossed a few, too. They just sink and lay there. No permits at all. Good thing for internet anonymity or the coppers might track me down.

[cpdiii]

Dang, everything is illegal in California!

California is governed by idiots. My cousin made slot machine housings and was immensely successful with his business in Truckee, California. As he expanded his operations, California placed so much red tape and hindrance he closed his business, moved it to Nevada and took essential personnel with him and sadly laid off the rest. He liked living in Truckee. He did not want to move his business. California made him move.

[minnesota_bound]

Meanwhile in that same Santa Barbara channel there are thousands of gallons of oil leaking out from the bottom of the ocean every year.

Coal Oil Point seep field
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Oil_Point_seep_field

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I'm probably why they got caught. ;^)

Figures some officious joker in authority would pop a cork about this.

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• Sunken Treasure: Scientists Taste 170-Year-Old Champagne Found in Shipwreck [08/29/2022]
• Jars Retrieved From The Ocean Reveal The Secrets of Ancient Roman Wine [07/05/2022]
• 300 bottles of Cognac recovered from ship sunk in WWI could fetch nearly £8,000 EACH: French shipment on Swedish steamer bound for tsarist Russia ended up at bottom of the Baltic Sea after German U-boat strike [06/26/2022]
• Napa Wine Aged in the Ocean Yields Surprising Results [05/24/2013]
• How Scottish Scientists Re-Created a Hundred-Year-Old Whisky (Shackleton's Antartica Scotch) [01/22/2012]
• Scotch Whisky Meant To Warm Antarctic Explorers Retrieved After Century Locked In Ice [02/06/2010]
• Shackleton's whisky recovered [02/05/2010]
• Explorers' century-old whisky found in Antarctic [02/05/2010]
• Team drills for century-old Scotch whiskey in Antarctica [11/16/2009]
• Preserved in ice for 100 years, the whisky Shackleton used to keep out the cold. [11/04/2009]
• Whisky on (Antarctic) ice: Ernest Shackleton...left a stash at the bottom of the world. [10/26/2009]
• Researchers say red wine reduces risk of Alzheimer's Disease - Beer doubles risk [11/12/2002]
• Boat of 160,000 wine corks makes waves [07/19/2002]
• A new day surfaces for deep sea archaeology [06/28/2002]

[Blood of Tyrants]

You know you have too much government when you have to ask permission to store bottles of wine at the bottom of the ocean. As if everyone should know there is a Department of Storing Wine at the Bottom of the Ocean. Or DOSWATBOTO as they like to be called.