Tuesday, 2 June, 2015
Lauren Eads, The Drinks Business
Speaking to specialist cannabis website The Cannabist, Ben
Parsons, owner of the Denver-based urban winery Infinite Monkey
Theorem, confirmed he was in talks with figures in the industry to host a
series of cannabis and wine pairing dinners.
“The potential for developing THC-infused wines and a whole other
recreational experience is certainly of interest to me as a
winemaker”, he told The Cannabist. “It’s inevitable that
certain strains, growers and cannabis brands will gain notoriety in the
same way that varietals and winemakers have done over the years.”
It comes following predictions of a cannabis cocktail trend in
the US, as a growing number of states seek to legalise and
decriminalise the Class C drug. While last year American singer Melissa
Etheridge launched of a range of wines laced with cannabis aimed at people suffering from cancer.
According to The Cannabist, there are 1,356 strains of the
drug which are driving a “new subculture of cannabis connoisseurs” that
it says could “one day resemble the long-accepted world of wine.”
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