Meteorites: Forget Space Beer, Order Meteorite Wine Instead

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Source: Discovery News
Date: Tue Jan 17, 2012

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."
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He even launched his own observatory in 2007, the Centro Astrononomica Tagua Tagua, currently the only place you can buy Meteorito wine -- at least for now. Hutchinson hopes to export the product around the world in the near future.

The meteorite in question, Hutchinson claims, is roughly three inches in diameter, 4.5 billion years old, and likely hails from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It crashed in Chile's Atacama Desert some 6,000 year ago.

Technically the meteorite belongs to "an American collector," who didn't seem to mind having his priceless piece of space rock marinate in a wooden barrel of red wine for 12 months.
http://news.discovery.com/space/meteorite-aged-wine-makes-perfect-space-pairing-120117.html
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Blake17 said:
Man alive, you've got some spare time on your hands.
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I must admit i laughed when i read this. But you know what?
We should be thankful to all that are able to source information and deliver it to the forum for our benefit and consideration. So thank you to all.
 
Note to Blake:
Remember to use an exclaimation point !

PM sent to Water&Food (!)
 
Please no more. Not a major issue. No need to humble self. All is forgiven.

On topic:
One of my long time mates in the opal industry ended up making a few Meterotite guitar picks (former business known as Star Picks Australia).
They were loved by all, but he had troubles selling the picks due to price (not his fault).
 
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