2,000 barnacle-covered wine bottles worth hundreds of thousands of dollars destroyed after California company illegally aged them in the ocean

• Around 2,000 bottles of wine were destroyed after a wine firm was found to be aging them illegally.
• The firm sank crates of wine a mile off the coast of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara's DA office said.
• But the FDA said the wine was "adulterated, and not fit for human consumption."

A wine company was forced to hand over around 2,000 bottles of wine and other alcohol to be destroyed after it was found to be illegally aging its products in the ocean.

Through their company Ocean Fathoms, Emanuele Azzaretto and Todd Hahn began placing crates of wine underwater in 2017, Santa Barbara's District Attorney's office said in a statement.