Sometime around Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:16:28 +0000 (UTC), PL
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>"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in
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>> http://www.packagingdigest.com/artic...927931642.html
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>> ANSA) - Chiavari, February 17 - A Ligurian wine maker is preparing to
>> drop 6,200 bottles of spumante into the sea off the coast of Portofino
>> where they will mature on the ocean floor in the world's first
>> experiment of its kind. Piero Lugano of the Cantina Bisson winery said
>> the bottles will spend 18 months on the sea bed at a depth of 70 metres,
>> a near-constant temperature of 15 degrees centigrade, and with an almost
>> total absence of light. Lugano said he got the idea from archaeological
>> discoveries of ancient shipwrecks, where amphorae from the cargo are
>> sometimes found intact despite the thousands of years that have passed.
>> ''I started thinking about ancient Roman galleons and relics (on the
>> ocean bed) and, especially, those amphorae that have been found filled
>> with wine, the taste, colour and smell of which was unchanged,'' he told
>> website Vino 24. On Tuesday the winery began bottling 5,000 litres of
>> spumante and loading the bottles into steel cages which will be dropped
>> into the sea in front of the inlet of Cala dell'Oro, in the Portofino
>> marine reserve.
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>(Looking around.......) Where's my damn diving gear!!!

Ha ha, next time I should read all replies before sending. Great minds
think alike!