Dead Fish Make Great Wine
A research study shows that the key to great California wine is thousands of dead chinook salmon. The salmon don’t do anything themselves, but animals eat the salmon carcasses thereby producing fertilizer for the vines.
The fish migrate from the nitrogen-rich waters of the Pacific back to the Mokelumne and Calaveras rivers to spawn in that famous upstream swimming. Rich in nitrogen, one of the major components of fertilizer, animals such as turkey vultures, coyotes, and rats then pick them off and process them into rich waste that’s naturally deposited at the nearest grapevine.
However, whether or not you should admit this knowledge during a date, especially while drinking wine, is still an unsolved mystery.
