How much is novelty worth?

[MattParkman]

I grow Merlot vines.
I train the vines into bottles as they grow. There is some special trademark canopy and temperature management techniques I use. The end product is a perfectly grown Bunch of Merlot Grapes grown inside a Bordeaux Clear Magnum.

At bottling I fill with a local White Merlot wine, very balanced and strong with a medium palate. The cork goes in and part of the vine is held in place.

It comes out to being a red grape bunch suspended inside a bottle of white wine.

As it ages it develops a bit of a pink tinge from the bunch.

If I sold this as a specialty wine, how much would you pay per bottle?

 

[Runningwolf]

Not much more, I'm getting less wine. The novelty of it is worth something though as there is a cool factor. A winery by me does this with pears.

 

[WVMountaineerJack]

Wouldnt the stem being left in there so long make it taste horrible? They also can put jars on top of beehives in a special way that the bees build honeycomb right in the bottle attached to the sides, cool but it doesnt taste any better WVMJ.

 

[JohnT]

Wouldnt the stem being left in there so long make it taste horrible? They also can put jars on top of beehives in a special way that the bees build honeycomb right in the bottle attached to the sides, cool but it doesnt taste any better WVMJ.

Just to add to the above...

I have seen this sort of thing for peach and pear liquors where the fruit is grown in the bottle, but that was only for a high (40%) alcohol beverage.

My concerns would be that you would be just begging for trouble with wine. Wine spoils and have a much lower ABV. Prior to filling how would you go about cleaning that bottle that has been sitting outside for 5 months? If you use k-meta, then how do you prevent the grape bunch from soaking a ton of it up, only to release it back into the wine?

Also, when that fruit breaks down, I assume that the wine will get very cloudy and full of pulp.

Still, I so go for it. The worst that could happen is that you end up with a bottle of wine that is not drinkable.