2,000 Barnacle-Covered Wine Bottles Worth Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Destroyed After California Company Illegally Aged Them in the Ocean
August 17, 2023
Business Insider
Around 2,000 bottles of wine worth hundreds of thousands of dollars were destroyed after a wine company, Ocean Fathoms, was found to be illegally aging them in the ocean near Santa Barbara. The company submerged crates of wine a mile off the coast, developing a reef ecosystem around them. The wine, covered in barnacles and other sea life, was found to be “adulterated, and not fit for human consumption” by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
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