Full Belly Files: Diving Into Underwater Wine
From Shipwrecked Wine to Seaside Dives
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“I think I like the underwater wine a little better.”
That’s me, being quoted by the renowned columnist Steve Lopez in the Los Angeles Times this past weekend, in his story about a comparative tasting of the wines that Santa Barbara–based company Ocean Fathoms is aging under the sea in cages just off the shores of East Beach. Lopez tuned into this story by chance this summer, getting a tip that this unique idea was running into permitting challenges with the California Coastal Commission. (My colleague Jun Starkey followed that report with her own story for our paper, which put a local political spin on it.)
