Self Disgorgement?

Have I missed a new trend for buying unfinished sparkling wines that you can disgorge at home (why?).

2010 Movia Puro Rose
BRDA - SLOVENIA

ONLY 3 CASES AVAILABLE

Description: 130+ year old pinot noir vineyard. Method Champenoise. Undisgorged. Note: This needs to be stored upside down to gather the yeast in the neck of the bottle for about an hour before serving. Disgorge/open under water.

https://vimeo.com/39229991 (disgorgement video)

Is this a new 'thing?? And you'd need a way of holding the bottles upside down while they mature, and special hardware to open them upside down under water....wonder if they will have another kit that allows you to add a dosage and recork them to get some nice fizz going?

I guess this is a step or two removed from the usual wine 'kits' for making wine at home, in that they put it in the bottle for you, but it certainly seems a tad too much 'hands on' for most hobbyists. And I didn't think wine fans had practiced 'self disgorgement' since the days of the Roman Saturnalias when they needed to make room for the next course (echh!).....

Disgorging, like training vines, punching down a cap, and putting the cork in a bottle, seems like the sort of thing that would be really fun to try once. And then quickly turn into a chore.

This Does NOT Appeal

This would be fun, once, at a party, after I've been drinking for hours... But otherwise this is ridiculous...

[Jenise]

This would be fun, once, at a party, after I've been drinking for hours... But otherwise this is ridiculous...

You moved away too soon....

PS - before anyone raises it, the Roman 'vomitorium' which is what the thread hearer makes one thing of, never existed as such!

Maybe self digorgement is like sabering bottles of Champagne (though less likely to result in bodily damage to the often inebriated participants). Something you either watch or possibly do once for the novelty and thereafter leave to the more easily entertained?