Alqueva: Thirty thousand bottles submerged to create wine Water
Inspired by the quality of wines “rescued” shipwrecks, after being “Lost” in the depths of the oceans, a wine producer from Alentejo decided to submerge 30 thousand bottles in the Alqueva dam to create the 'Wine Water'.
“The project is to recover an ancient history, where boats that sank with wines revealed, after, have extraordinary wines”, said today to journalists the executive director of Ervideira, Duarte Leal da Costa.
The company produces wines, based in Évora county, He decided to rethink this whole “centuries of history” and recreate it in modern times.
Para of, is immersed 30 thousand bottles its top range, o Conde D’Ervideira Reserva Tinto 2014, the waters of the Alqueva, near the rental operator, in the Portel municipality, Évora.
Sealed, sealed and packed in large crates, Today some of them placed in water, with the aid of a tractor and a boat, the bottles will, now, internship in Bayou depths.
“Already we put a few bottles inside [da albufeira]. No total, will be over 30 thousand bottles under water, a 15 or 17 meters deep, not least, and up to 30 meters, no maximum”, said Duarte Leal da Costa.
The wine, already matured, in other words, matured, eight months in barrels, It will be subjected to this new stage in the water, for at least eight months, hitting the market, later, as 'Wine Water'.
The features that this process provides the wine to fail to get the aging cellar, segundo a Ervideira, that submerged the Alqueva, a year ago, a box with bottles, to go testing the evolution of “néctares”.
“Within water, the wine will win a stage that we can not do within the basement”, why, in the latter, are there “temperature variations, from day to night and from winter to summer”.
