I’m not that big a fan of the vino, but I really want to drink the Cabernet Sauvignon from Ian Hutchinson’s vineyard in Chile’s Cachapoal Valley. Why? Well, for some reason, it’s aged with a three-inch, 4.5 billion-year-old meteor from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. SPACEWINE.
The meteorite hit Earth around 6000 years ago and sits with the Cabernet in a wooden barrel for 12 months. I’m not sure my unsophisticated tastes could discern any sort of flavour from the meteorite but Hutchinson claims the rock gives the wine a “livelier taste”. Whatever it is, it’s always awesome to get drunk from something that doesn’t exist on this planet. Or always awesome to find new excuses to get drunk. [Discovery News via Foodbeast]
TSH
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 2:35 PMRiiiight.
Crystal healing, anybody?
monkeymind
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 5:19 PMUp next. Wine made with 15.5 – 20 billion year old water…
Telextial
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 2:37 PMMegaKim would buy this.
chugs
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 12:04 PMonly if it came in a juice carton
DarthDVD
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 2:38 PMSuper Powers?
or SPACE FLU!
Inform
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 3:19 PMA mertorite or a lump of uncrushed granite – would you ever be able to tell?
Drew
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 3:29 PMI’m sure it tastes out of this world.
Rollz
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 7:29 PMWill it get me smashed? Get my rocks off? Hit me …..
Lillee
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 4:11 PMOtherwise known as Romulan Ale
chris
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 4:37 PM4.5billion years.. seriously who comes up with these numbers..
Husky
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 4:59 PMScience? Carbon dating and the like.
Timmeh
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 5:06 PMOlder than the Earth if it’s true…
tom
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 9:38 PMit didnt come from the earth, earth isnt the oldest rock floating around you know, probably one the youngest
Timmeh
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 10:58 AMAgreed. Just sayin’…
Cynic
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 11:06 PMLooks like a tektite to me. Driest rocks on earth (formed by meteorite impact, but with materials of terrestrial orign). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektite