Forget Space Beer, Order Meteorite Wine Instead 77
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.'"
What a snobbish way (Score:5, Funny)
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Yes, we have to be sure not to take such things for granite.
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Iron therefore I drink.
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To get stoned.
I'm holding out for Cometary Crack...
"Livelier taste" (Score:5, Funny)
Hell of a slogan to introduce the coming zombie apocalypse.
winemaking gimmickry (Score:4)
It's official: oenology has veered off into gimmicky homeopathy.
Re:winemaking gimmickry (Score:5, Funny)
Re:winemaking gimmickry (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
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Well, yeah, that's why you spit it out after tasting.
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I think the entire Wine community needs to be introduced to a double blind study.
Re:winemaking gimmickry (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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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).
I disagree. I think it depends o
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Does no-one watch movies? (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously, when the Zombie Apocalypse starts it will be exactly through doing something like putting alien soil into a beverage...
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Or..
It will give the drinkers immunity to the bites.
Re:Does no-one watch movies? (Score:4, Funny)
Or maybe not, but we'll finally answer the age-old question of whether human brain goes better with a red or a white whine.
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Or maybe not, but we'll finally answer the age-old question of whether human brain goes better with a red or a white whine.
Judging by the lack of intelligence or taste of zombies I would guess a cheap mass-marketed beer. On the other hand, Livers, as we know, are best pared with fava beans and a nice chianti.
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I have it on good authority that long pork goes well with fava beans and a nice chianti.
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Well, since the liver goes well with a nice chianti, it would be fair to try a riesling or sauvignon blanc with brains.
Cave Johnson (Score:5, Funny)
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People who dont read XKCD aren't the brightest either.
Ah, Iridium (Score:3)
Sweetest of the transition metals.
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You want sweet?
The Romans actually did put lead acetate in their wine to sweeten it.
I wouldn't recommend it.
No Thanks (Score:3)
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I love those too, but getting Algolian sun-tiger teeth here on earth is getting really hard... Who's your supplier?
Some cheese with that wine? (Score:3, Insightful)
the Same People (Score:2, Funny)
this is brought to you by the same group of people that believe coffee beans taste better after they pass through a cat
Re:the Same People (Score:4, Funny)
Come on now, feline backdoor coffee is LITERALLY the shit when it comes to dealing with Space Wine induced hangovers.
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Cats? Yuck! I was told they used a weasel.
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They use a meerkat (and possibly other animals), which is in the mongoose family. The theory is, I think, supposed to be that the meerkats will find and eat the best beans, therefore you get the best beans out of the other end. In practice... well I don't drink coffee anyway, what do I care?
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I saw a documentary on coffee making, where they mentioned this... it wasn't a cat, but several types of animals were mentioned. They did a blind taste test with a bunch of professional coffee testers (called Cupping [wikipedia.org] ) and the result? The pooped coffee was indistinguishable from the worst samples of "normal" coffee. Certainly worse than the good varieties.
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this is brought to you by the same group of people that believe coffee beans taste better after they pass through a cat
Yes, well, that product was doomed because supply always falls behind demand when it comes to post feline digestive tract coffee beans. Meteorites are inanimate, and a pleasure to work with comparatively; Whereas, no one is brave or foolish enough to suffer a caffeinated cat twice.
Oh, whatever (Score:3)
It's a rock. You dumped a rock into your wine.
Thank you for the description of malolactic fermentation. In fact, a nice article devoted to the details of malo would be very informative: the challenges, the kinds of flavors it produces, how it's controlled, etc. That would be great.
I guess if what you're starting with is "some attention whore dumped a rock in his wine, and it's a SPACE ROCK" a science reporter has to do something for a second sentence. So, thanks for accidentally including some value in an otherwise pointless bit of attention whoring.
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Technically, all the rocks (as well as everything else) on Earth came from space. Some have just been here longer than others.
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in fact, from some perspectives , earth IS a space rock. Just throw some dirt in it and jack up the price.
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Well, from the grandest possible perspective, *everything* is space *everything* because it's all surrounded by oUtEr SpAcE, right? So *my* wine is SPACEWINE just because I *made* it! I even piss in it, because my urine used to be part of a Staaarrrr
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Space Piss! Can sell that for a fortune. At least get an article written about it.
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Yeah, well, try explaining that to a Space Nutter. You'll need that bottle of wine.
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That sounds just like truffles (mushrooms) to me. They taste just like dirt, yet snobby people insist they're great, with some bullshit about an "earthy" or "rustic" flavor.
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Exactly the same as with those fancy white iThings
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Wired had an excellent article on how to extract brewing yeast from 45 million year old amber, some time back. Unfortunately, it's beer yeast and not wine yeast, but there should be some way to improve the alcohol tolerance.
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"Sky at Night" wasn't too bad, either. BBC2 do some excellent work when it comes to astronomy. Sometimes deliberately, via putting on excellent programs, sometimes accidentally by putting on late night rubbish. If it gets people looking up once in a while, then it's all good.
Finally! (Score:2)
I knew my day would come... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107563/ [imdb.com]
some schmuck will buy it (Score:2, Funny)
As George Carlin once said, "if you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it."
vintage (Score:1)
Vintage 4,000,000,000 BCE (before common era).
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Sure, and "breaking in" your speaker cables makes a noticeable difference in sound quality....
...gives his wine a 'livelier taste.' (Score:2)
Livlier? (Score:4, Funny)
Make you wonder... (Score:1)
Just had to read.... (Score:2)
It's submitted stories like this that make me yearn to get to the comments. You know: start off with a few jokes... get into the XKCD shit... ALL ROCKS come from space...
[deep contented sigh] Like watching a train wreck all over again...
Just like Russian folk tale (Score:2)
Reminds me of a Russian folk tale where a guy convinces a stingy woman to give him all the soup ingredients by telling her that a woodsmen axe is an integral part of the recipy.
This can't be good (Score:1)
Let's get serious, please. (Score:2)
I see plenty of people made jokes about this piece of news. And it's okay: I'm fond of awful puns myself.
Before going to the point, I'll just mention there's an Alsacian brewery called Meteor.
My point is about microgravity, and how it could affect brewing and winemaking. But since, despite being French, I don't know much about winemaking, I'll stick to brewing (a matter in which I've been taught by distinguished Belgian amateurs).
As any beer amateur knows, most beers basically fall into two categories, comm
I'll bet the price is (Score:1)
Female Sommelier (Score:2)