UNDERWATER AGING
New concept
Underwater wine aging is a relatively new concept in the world of wine whose practice, however, comes from afar and draws on fortuitous historical experiences.
The wines found in old galleons and sunken ships demonstrated that the sea offers exceptional conditions for the evolution of the liquid in the bottle, notably improving the characteristics and providing other very special ones.
The most recent case took place in 2010, in the remains of a shipwreck found in the Äland island, in which 47 bottles of a well-known brand of Champagne from 1840 were found. The quality of the champagne so surprised the experts , that the house itself decided to introduce a selection of its best wines to the Baltic to create a special underwater collection.
Galeon 1631
This encouraged private initiatives like ours to research and develop underwater wine aging.
History has been marked by countless events and some tragic ones where Spanish galleons were shipwrecked with riches and raw materials in Mexican waters. From one of these historical stories our shipwreck wine with the GALEON 1631 brand was born.