astronomy and wine

What would happen if you combined a passion for astronomy and a love of wine??

Wine that's out of this world.

My wine NYX, will be like any other wine, a mixture of fermented grapes or other fruits BUT with a slight twist. Have you ever heard of the Glitter Berry J2O or Smirnoff Gold Vodka? Although one is alcoholic and one is just a juice drink, they both have one thing in common. They both have edible gold glitter that sparkles once the bottle is shaken!! What a world we live in. There is also something equally amazing called 'wine of fire' which you can view here, and although I'm not entirely sure how it works its amazing. If I wasn't so far into astronomy and mythology I'd be all over this.

NYX is actually a goddess known very well in mythology for being the goddess of the night. With that I decided my packaging would look good in an astronomy style, plenty of night skies and stars. But how do I link all of this with wine you might ask? Simple, back to the Glitter Berry and Smirnoff Gold, edible glitter. My wine will have the slight twist of having sparkly edible glitter inside that holds the appearance of stars. So to recap, wine, that sparkles and looks like stars, astronomy themed packaging and a goddess of night for my name. Although I wanted to do wine, I wanted to do something completely different to all the other wines, and rather than just having a plain bottle I wanted something themed that would really jump out at you and stand out against all the other bottles.

The idea behind the project was to blend my passion for both astronomy and wine in a real physical way rather than just symbolic. I wanted to give people the chance to almost touch an element of space and nearly taste the particles of the birth of the solar system via a very nicely crafter bottle of wine. Hopefully the flavour will space you out (I'm so full of puns it's unreal, I'm not even sorry).

That's the most realistic way I can relate my product to my ideas. But, if you were to say anything goes? Then I'd say, once upon a time a meteorite was believed to crash on earth roughly 6,000 years ago in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. The small space rock was found and it's fate was decided. It was submerged with 25 day fermented Cabernet grapes in a wooden barrel for 12 months. After that year, it was blended with another batch of Cabernet to make about 10,000 litres...