The Shipwreck That Aged Wine Perfectly

In 1944, a German cargo ship carrying thousands of bottles of high-end French Bordeaux wine was sunk by Allied forces off the coast of Brittany. Decades later, divers recovered several intact bottles from the icy, high-pressure seabed. Wine experts who tasted the salvaged bottles discovered that the dark, cold, and pressurized underwater environment had actually preserved and aged the wine to absolute perfection, sparking a modern trend of underwater wine aging.