UK Astronomer Creates Wine from 4 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite

An UK astronomer has, apparently, created wine from a 4.5 billion year old meteorite!

Ex-pat, Ian Hutechon has labelled his astronomical-alcoholic creation - Meteorito. The wine was created by placing a meteorite inside a wine barrel.

The base wine was from Hutcheon's own vineyard, in the Cachapoal Valley of Chile, which he bought in 2009.

The specially chosen grapes are fermented for 25 days before placed in a vine barrel with a three-inch (7.6cm) piece of the meteorite.

Apparently there are already 10,000 litres of this other-worldly drink ready.

The meteorite itself, incidentally, came from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and crashed into the Atacama Desert some 6,000 years ago.

The wine is available only at the Centro Astronomico Tagua Tagua observatory, which was established by Hutcheon in 2007.

"A major difference is that you are tasting elements from the birth of the solar system, and that for me this is a major difference," said Hutcheon, the creator of this special wine.

"You are tasting space, in a way you physically taste elements of the solar system and of the history of the meteorite that spent millions of years orbiting the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, you are tasting that," he added.