Would you drink meteorite-infused wine?

Meteorito wine, a brand of Cabernet Sauvignon, is thought to be the world's first meteorite-infused wine. The cosmic fragment was submerged in the grape juice during the fermentation process (centroastronomico.com).

Imagine a wine connoisseur swirling Cabernet Sauvignon around in his mouth, and then comparing the experience to "drinking elements from the birth of the solar system."

With those exact words, vineyard owner Ian Hutcheon is promoting Meteorito, the first wine aged with a roughly 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite believed to be from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

"I've been involved in wines and astronomy for many, many years and I wanted to find some way of combining the two," Hutcheon said in an interview with a drink industry website.

The wine comes from Hutcheon's Tremonte Vineyard in Chile's Cachapoal Valley, and its stellar ingredient is believed to have landed in that country's Atacama Desert around 6,000 years ago. During the fermentation process, the meteorite was placed inside a wooden barrel full of wine, and was later blended with another batch of Cabernet Sauvignon.

"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.

The Englishman also owns an observatory in Chile, the Centro Astrononomica Tagua Tagua, which is currently the only place on Earth selling Meteorito wine.

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