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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.'"
To get stoned.
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Hell of a slogan to introduce the coming zombie apocalypse.
Seriously, when the Zombie Apocalypse starts it will be exactly through doing something like putting alien soil into a beverage...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I think I'll pass....we all know what happened to Cave Johnson.
Then I suggest you dont' (do) read this: http://www.amicistours.com/wineswirling.html
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.
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.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
...don't you mean it tastes a little... meteor?