Bisson Sea Floor Aged Wine

The winemakers at mira winery tasted the ocean aged wine against the same kind of wine that had aged in a cellar but could not necessarily say which wine was better.

Bisson sea floor aged wine. After the wine was pulled from the ocean it was blind tasted against the same wine aged on land. Meet the bubbling wine finished undersea. Here at its underwater bed these wines rest for the next 18 24 months. As for the results of the experiment it went well.

The dearth of a cellar for his bubbly led mr lugano to consider the artistic options and take the wine 45 metres under the ocean floor to age. Every autumn winemaker piero lugano gathers his team of scuba divers to bring several boxes of the bubbly which is made like champagne back under the sunlight after months spent in the sea depths outside of sestri levante italy. At the same time the chemical analysis was consistent with the same wine aged on land with the exception of the turbidity. A winemaker who leaves his sparkling wine on the sea bottom claims his bubbly never gets old if it s aged underwater.

Not suprisingly i believe it to be the gentle rocking motion hastening chemical reactions within the wine. Mr lugano stores hundreds of bottles of wine on the sea. Winemaker leaves his sparkling wine on seabed for up to five years because bubbly never gets old if it s aged. Pierluigi wanted to explore the possibilities of the indigenous vines of southern liguria in the riviera ligure del levante.

In the beginning wine is made and aged for 3 months on the land before being immersed in the sea. To a deeper one. The wine is much more. The wine cabernet sauvignon to be precise had been allowed a full three months of aging at 60 feet below the ocean surface.

It was also chemically analyzed. Mr lugano then retrieves the bottles and sells them with algae sea shells starfish little crabs and generally even tiny fish that received caught to the glass. The sea aged wine is more advanced aged than the land aged sample. The abissi spumante wine brings winemaking to a higher level.

B was the ocean aged wine. The results of the blind tasting suggested two different wines both on the nose and taste. Bisson in 1978 as a. This winter the second edition of abissi made from the 2009 vintage and brought up from the sea on july 2 2011 will be available in america for the first time through bisson s importer neil.

The room was split about 50 50 on this and gustavo said that s pretty much how it has played out in the previous five tastings.