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Default Wine aged in the sea

Sometime around Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:57:39 -0700, Gloria P
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>Bob Ezrin wrote:
>> Sometime around Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:03:50 -0500, "Ed Pawlowski"
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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.

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>> Time to dust off my old scuba gear!

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>To 70 meters? I doubt it.


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