Cavas Submarinas … underwater wine?
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This has got to be one of the craziest wine stories I have ever heard. Whoever thought of putting wine under the ocean to age?
Whoever it was, was either plum crazy or a genius.
Until I watched the video I would have said crazy. After I watched the video and tasted the wine and would have to say the latter, genius, pure genius.
Enjoy the video. Leave a comment with your thoughts. Then stop by HomePort and pick up a bottle or a case of this wonderful blend of pinot noir and carmenere grapes, aged by the ocean.
Here’s a little history of the Carmenere grape and how it was rediscovered almost a century and a half later.
Carmenere once vied with Cabernet Sauvignon for quality in France’s Bordeaux region. But when phylloxera the root louse swept through French vineyards in the late 1800s, Carmenere didn’t take well to grafted rootstock and was thought lost to history.
Before phylloxera hit France, supposedly Merlot vines from Bordeaux were planted in Chile. At least, it was thought to be Merlot. More than a century later in the 1995, it was discovered after a DNA test on the grape that much of Chile’s Merlot actually was Carmenere.
[…] Watch the video first and then decide if this Pinot ’s for you. […]
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