Marijuana wine (California)
Many people enjoy the tipsiness that comes from a couple of glasses of wine, but for some that’s not enough. Say hello to marijuana wine. It’s reportedly becoming common with Californian wine drinkers, where producers have discovered that dropping large amounts of marijuana into a cask of fermenting wine gives it an extra buzz. Interestingly, many people believe that Cabernet Sauvignon offsets the taste of dope nicely.

Meteorite wine (Chile)
Cabernet Sauvignon is the base grape for this space wine. Since 2012 the Chile-based British astronomer Ian Hutcheon has been producing Meteorito, or wine infused with meteorite. The rock in question is thought to have originated in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, to have plummeted to earth about 6,000 years ago and to be around 4.5 billion years old. The wine’s creator claims the meteorite makes the wine ‘livelier’.

Baby mice wine (East Asia)
Pickled animals are something of a niche interest, but alcohol infused with creatures is part of traditional culture in areas of east Asia. Probably the most disturbing of these ‘biological additives’ are baby mice, although there is strong competition from lizard/snake, bear bile and deer penis. Baby mice rice wine is believed by some to have medicinal properties and is touted as a treatment for a number of ailments including liver disease.

Poo wine (Korea)
Of all the things you might consider putting in your drink, human child faeces probably aren’t up there, unless you’re a practitioner of traditional Korean medicine. Drinking ‘ttongsul’ – made from rice, yeast and the poo of a young child mixed in water and left to ferment for seven days – is believed to have the power to heal cuts and broken bones. Unsurprisingly, ttongsul is no longer widely drunk.

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