Maybe Jules Verne and his 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea he would not have been excited to have destroy wine. Well, neither to him nor to anyone, but California law has been stricter with the Ocean Fathoms company, which has been forced to destroy 2,000 bottles of wine.
The reason: having been aged illegally and, as they explain from Food & Wine, that these wines are considered adulterated and unfit for human consumption. At least that’s what the Santa Barbara District Attorney in California, responsible for the voice of command for proceed to the destruction of the 2,000 bottles.
The truth, as the explanation of Food & Wine, is that it is not something particularly new. Ocean Fathoms has been aging wine underwater since 2017, but the reality is that never had permission to do so by the competent authorities.
Despite what the brand alleges, ensuring that it allowed the wine to develop a select and exclusive product. The problem, we insist, is that it was illegal. Not only because not have asked permission from any authority to deposit the wine for 12 months under the sea, like Sebastián de The little Mermaidbut because they were not marketing it with any type of alcoholic beverage license from the state of California, as specified in the legislation, so the illegalities multiplied.
In this way, the bottles of Ocean Fathoms—each sold for about 500 dollars (around 460 euros)—not only collected taxes, but they did not transmit them to the public treasury.
White wine Attis Mar Rías Baixas.
It is curious that, this time legal, there are Spanish companies that also sell underwater aged wines As is the case of Attis Mar, a Galician Albariño that was several years ahead of the precocity of Ocean Fathoms, aging wines under the sea since 2011.
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