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Wine Making From Outer Space
Ian Hutcheon is a 40 year old British astronomer living in Chile that has has combined his two great loves, astronomy and wine making. He’s created what is believed to be the first wine aged by a meteorite formed during the birth of the solar system.
His wine, called “Meteorito” was created with grapes from Hutcheon’s Tremonte Vineyard and a 4.5 billion year-old meteorite that crashed into the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile about 6,000 years ago.
He explains on the wine’s label: “The meteorite used in the creation of this wine came from the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the idea behind submerging it in wine was to give everybody the opportunity to touch something from space, and extra-terrestrial rock, the very history of the Solar System, and feel it via a grand wine.”
Mr. Hutcheon said he believes the meteorite gives the finished wine a “livelier taste”.
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Lee Wharton on January 21st, 2012 9:04 am
I prefer Stella……….Artois!
Lee Wharton on January 21st, 2012 9:06 am
A great British inventor!
Angela Shupe on January 23rd, 2012 7:10 am
My first thought was: after 6,000 years on Earth, just how “outer space” is the rock? All joking aside, I am not sure I could drink a wine that touched something like that. I imagine the adventurous would find it it interesting, but I cannot help but wonder what contaminates might still be on the rock. I wonder just how many people have decided to buy the wine.
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