Forget Space Beer, Order Meteorite Wine Instead

astroengine writes "Chances are, when you pop open a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, you expect to savor certain aromatic flavors, or 'notes,' depending on the wine: fruit forward, perhaps, with hints of pepper and leathery tannins, and just the faintest whiff of... meteorite??? At least that's what you'd savor if you were drinking a bottle of Meteorite, possibly the very first wine on the market aged with a meteorite that fell to Earth from space. It's the brainchild of Ian Hutcheon, an Englishman now working in Chile, who thinks the infusion of a bit of meteorite gives his wine a 'livelier taste.'"

Comments

What a snobbish way

[Cryacin]

To get stoned.

Re:What a snobbish way

[dubyrunning]

Wine on the rocks? It's much better neat.

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"Livelier taste"

[MrHanky]

Hell of a slogan to introduce the coming zombie apocalypse.

winemaking gimmickry

[tverbeek]

It's official: oenology has veered off into gimmicky homeopathy.

Re:winemaking gimmickry

[gazbo]

Then I suggest you dont' (do) read this: http://www.amicistours.com/wineswirling.html

Re:winemaking gimmickry

[demonbug]

It's official: oenology has veered off into gimmicky homeopathy.

Enology has always been gimmicky homeopathy; it's only fairly recently (last 40-50 years out of a history >2000 years long) that it has been anything but gimmicky homeopathy.

That said, It would be nice if they mentioned what kind of meteorite it is. I mean, I can see a nice iron-nickel meteorite bringing out the grapes' natural terroir of the clean, arid Chilean hills where they grow in the shadow (??) of the great Atacama desert. The complex and subtle mineral flavors imbued by a chondritic meteorite would obviously clash with the natural simplicity of the South American wine, and would be more appropriate for something grown in Napa or Bordeaux (no critique is complete without some form of inter-continental snobbery).

Personally I'd grind up the meteorite and scatter it across the field so I could make up some even better BS about the alien notes introduced by the extra-terrestrial terroir (I like terroir) of the meteorite-imbued (imbue is good, too) soil. I could also produce way more meteorite wine that way than how they are doing it. Amateurs.

Re:winemaking gimmickry

[SuperKendall]

If a liquid is so self aware as to be putting out different aromas based on a direction of flow, I don't think I want to be putting that in my stomach to die a horrible acidic death.

Re:winemaking gimmickry

[JaneTheIgnorantSlut]

After reading that link, I now know where to sell my new and improved audio cables.

Re:winemaking gimmickry

[0100010001010011]

I think the entire Wine community needs to be introduced to a double blind study.

Does no-one watch movies?

[SuperKendall]

Seriously, when the Zombie Apocalypse starts it will be exactly through doing something like putting alien soil into a beverage...

Re:Does no-one watch movies?

[Lashat]

Or..

It will give the drinkers immunity to the bites.

Re:Does no-one watch movies?

[Ukab the Great]

Or maybe not, but we'll finally answer the age-old question of whether human brain goes better with a red or a white whine.

Cave Johnson

[ticker47]

I think I'll pass....we all know what happened to Cave Johnson.

Ah, Iridium

[Ukab the Great]

Sweetest of the transition metals.

No Thanks

[hagrin]

I'll stick to my pan galactic gargle blasters thank you very much.

Some cheese with that wine?

[EliSowash]

What sort of cheese would one pair with a meteorite? I'm thinking a nice cheddar

the Same People

[Anonymous Coward]

this is brought to you by the same group of people that believe coffee beans taste better after they pass through a cat

Re:the Same People

[SuperKendall]

Come on now, feline backdoor coffee is LITERALLY the shit when it comes to dealing with Space Wine induced hangovers.

Re:the Same People

[MrHanky]

Cats? Yuck! I was told they used a weasel.

Oh, whatever

[jfengel]

It's a rock. You dumped a rock into your wine.

Thank you for the description of malolactic fermentation. In fact, a nice article devoted to the details of malo would be very informative: the challenges, the kinds of flavors it produces, how it's controlled, etc. That would be great.

I guess if what you're starting with is "some attention whore dumped a rock in his wine, and it's a SPACE ROCK" a science reporter has to do something for a second sentence. So, thanks for accidentally including some value in an otherwise pointless bit of attention whoring.

Re:Oh, whatever

[berashith]

Space Piss! Can sell that for a fortune. At least get an article written about it.

Re:Obligatory XKCD

[newcastlejon]

FYI Obligatory doesn't mean "pick a random XKCD strip".

some schmuck will buy it

[Anonymous Coward]

As George Carlin once said, "if you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it."

...gives his wine a 'livelier taste.'

[Aeros]

Seriously...STFU. It's a gimmick and nothing more. I have been a brewer for a long time and this is just a simple novalty item. Say what it is and not something stupid like "It gives it a livelier taste!" Idiot.

Livlier?

[bradorsomething]

...don't you mean it tastes a little... meteor?

Re:Obligatory XKCD

[Anonymous Coward]

People who dont read XKCD aren't the brightest either.