I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, If you look back at Earth in geologic time, you see that the surface of the Earth is much more fluid than we think.

As tectonic plates have shifted and continents have risen and sunk over millions of years,

certain anomalies arise.

It may seem odd to find beds of thousands of oyster shells in the middle of France, until you

learn that this was once a sea and that the shells were scraped to the surface by

glaciers during the last Ice Age.

In fact, in our business, many of the most unique wine terrawars that we appreciate are vineyards

grown on ancient seabeds.

Let's take a look at a few of the most interesting.

First off, why are pieces of the Rocky Mountains strewn about Washington State?

Well, a massive waterway called the Western Interior Seaway that stretched across Middle America from northern Canada all the way down to

Panama once blanketing the USA. It completely covered both Dakota's and

Basque or Colorado and Mexico and Texas, but Tectonic Plate Movement caused it to drain into the Pacific.

And during this extreme Earth movement, it broke off pieces of the Rockies and deposited them all throughout Washington State.

Some of the most interesting U.S. wines come from places where these channels between the Western Interior Seaway and the Pacific conjoined.

And let's not forget about Bordeaux. The left bank was once a marshland

drained by Dutch merchants in the 1700s. Compare this to the Graf region,

which has a vine growing history that dates back at least a thousand years.

We can attribute many of wines modernity to the Left Bank Bordeaux,

which helped in state a new way of wine trading, which included tasting merchants on barrels and estate bottling in small glass bottles.

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