Savour Hidden Treasures Under the Sea as Anantara Kihavah Maldives Villas Launches Underwater-Aged Wine Tastings

Home to the world’s first ever underwater wine cellar and restaurant, Anantara Kihavah Maldives Villas is offering guests a truly remarkable and exclusive oenophilia experience. Aside from the fine cuisine and stunning views of the local marine life, its award-winning SEA Underwater Restaurant now offers a unique experience of wine tasting featuring underwater-aged wines.

In 2020, our wine experts at Anantara Kihavah started an innovative experiment of submerging bottles of Dom Perignon 2008 vintage Champagne below the ocean’s surface to age for 365 days. The bottles are submerged in open water without enclosures and away from direct sunlight. After the sunken bottles were retrieved, the Champagnes noticeably gained distinct flavour notes such as seaweed, minerals, and salinity in its taste, perfectly complementing the classic components of Dom Perignon’s citrus, brioche, and nutty characters. Now there is a range of underwater aged Champagne and wines to taste.