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Chile’s space wine Meteorito: the first meteorite-aged wine in the world

British winemaker, Ian Hutcheon, has combined his two favorite hobbies, wine and astronomy to create Meteorito, a Cabernet Sauvignon aged with a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite. From the Tremonte vineyard in the Cachapoal Valley in Chile, which he bought in 2009, the wine was barrel-aged over one year by the process of malolactic fermentation. This is a process which reduces acidity in red wines and certain white ones, in an organic way rather than a chemical one.
dark wine Chiles space wine Meteorito: the first meteorite aged wine in the world

The chosen 3-inch meteorite comes from the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, and is thought to have landed in the Atacama desert in northern Chile around 6,000 years ago, although it now belongs to an American collector.

“The idea behind submerging it in wine was to give everybody the opportunity to touch something from space; the very history of the solar system, and feel it via a grand wine,” Hutcheon said to the Drinks Business.

The wine is only sold Centro Astronomico Tagua Tagua, an observatory that Hutcheon started in 2007, though he is interested in exporting it, with 10,000 litres of the wine already made.
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greg~judy wrote:in honor of wannabe wine elitists
here might be the ultimate bragging rights for quaffing a chilean whine
just 10,000 litres produced!
we will patiently wait future reports of the "five S" steps...
see, swirl, sniff, sip, savor
please - who will be the first to get "spaced out"...?
hmmmm - no price was forthcoming for said "privilege"...?

Chile’s space wine Meteorito: the first meteorite-aged wine in the world

British winemaker, Ian Hutcheon, has combined his two favorite hobbies, wine and astronomy to create Meteorito, a Cabernet Sauvignon aged with a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite. From the Tremonte vineyard in the Cachapoal Valley in Chile, which he bought in 2009, the wine was barrel-aged over one year by the process of malolactic fermentation. This is a process which reduces acidity in red wines and certain white ones, in an organic way rather than a chemical one.
dark wine Chiles space wine Meteorito: the first meteorite aged wine in the world

The chosen 3-inch meteorite comes from the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, and is thought to have landed in the Atacama desert in northern Chile around 6,000 years ago, although it now belongs to an American collector.

“The idea behind submerging it in wine was to give everybody the opportunity to touch something from space; the very history of the solar system, and feel it via a grand wine,” Hutcheon said to the Drinks Business.

The wine is only sold Centro Astronomico Tagua Tagua, an observatory that Hutcheon started in 2007, though he is interested in exporting it, with 10,000 litres of the wine already made.
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zer0nz wrote:http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/sc-food-0127-wine-chile-20120201,0,2433912.story

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