Re: Shipwreck Wine- A Study in Hindsight

Enjoyed this....and Bill Freeman's joke!!!!

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On Mar 10, 2015, at 12:40 PM, Buzz Darcy <buzzdarcy@rocketmail.com> wrote:

 My daughter has instructed me to look for "trending" topics, and report on them, preferably on video, explaining exactly what they mean. She assumes that her friends will find it hilarious, send me to internet fame , and secure , for her, a job managing my speaking tours, etc. I have looked into some 'trends', but they're boring as shit, such as; Bruce Jenner's hair length, cute cat pictures, the worlds most expensive yacht, and how stupid Sarah Palin is. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-transgender, animal, wealth, or politics, I'm just anti-boring. I'm also skipping the video.

 I did come upon something that caught my eye, though; a festival in South Carolina where a group of wine experts (I always chuckle at that term- I get mixed images) had in their possession 6 bottles of what they called "shipwreck wine", and decanted and sampled it. The stuff came from a Civil War era ship that had been sunk outside of Charleston Harbor and brought up by some recreational divers.

 It was speculated that the recovered bottles contained "...a Spanish fortified wine,...a spirit, or medicine...". How did the experts come to this conclusion? Well, of course, they tasted the stuff, as wine experts are want to do. As to the taste ? I will quote,"...crab water, gasoline,salt water,vinegar,hints of citrus and alcohol...'. Yummy!

 To be fair, the sommeliers also noted that the nose was of "...camphor, stagnant water, hydrocarbons, turpentine...and sulfur."  Hell, they had me at crab water. They showed a picture of thew "wine" in a decanter. It was grey and described as "viscous". I'm not sure where these sommeliers came from, because the ones I've met here in California don't come across as that adventurous. There was a state agricultural official who drank a glass of what he called insecticide some years back, but no one has heard about him in a while.

 I'm kind of wondering what this shipwreck wine would go with? Perhaps some of that rotted shark they eat in Iceland. Marinated boot? A pond scum mousse? Red? White? Rose? Grey? They only have 6 bottles, so I guess we won't see the label on store shelves too soon.

 Well, anyway, that's what's trending at my house.