Orange wine is a thing, and now apparently blue wine is too. A Spanish firm called Gik have decided go against wine tradition and create a new breed of alcohol to drink with your dinner. It kind of looks like fairy liquid, but for £7.50 a 750ml bottle, we’ll give it a go. Especially if it goes on a half price Tesco sale when it comes to the U.K.
The Gik entrepreneurs describe themselves as 'young people without any wine tradition,’ so you know, we should really trust them…or not. Now, I had a little inspection of the Gik website and apparently they believe that it’s: ‘not about the grapes, it’s about the people,’ which I half agree with. Apart from the fact that with wine, it really is about the grapes. I’m no wine expert but I’m pretty sure to make a decent glass of Merlot, you need some bloody great grapes in there.
They go on to state how they read a book called The Blue Ocean Strategy that had something to do with red oceans full of sharks that ate loads of tiny fish, so many that the water turned red. They go on to talk about blue oceans where fish swim without being harassed. The founders liked this poetic idea of transforming a red ocean into a calm blue ocean, so they decided to do the same with wine. Are you following? The idea for blue wine came from sharks eating tiny fish. Very biblical, as our creative editor, Natalia, pointed out.
Obviously the most important thing about the wine, is the taste. Apparently it has a sweet taste, similar to a Riesling and gets its distinctive hue from two dyes. The ‘anthocyanin', which is a pigment found in grape skinned indigo, a dye extracted from the isatis tinctorial plant. The brand are yet to release a date that blue wine will be available in our shops, but when we drink it we probably won’t have fish floating about in it. That we know of.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.