Star Wines

Star wines are a type of beverage derived from stellar plasma. Favoured by particular life forms or those with a more robust constitution, these beverages are often served at celebrations and parties among both the wealthy and the poor.

Creation
For non-synthetic star wines, a universe with suitable physics for stellar formation is chosen. After this, a suitable stellar body is found, be it a white dwarf, red giant or main sequence star. The stellar plasma is extracted from these bodies, before being tightly contained in special temporal stasis vaults. From there, some elements may be added or removed from the plasma to adjust its flavour.

Those wine extractors who cater to more particular tastes may extract raw neutronium from various neutron stars. These are usually kept in tenderly adjusted containment units as the extreme instability of neutronium makes distilling and separating it from the mixture of strange and quark matter it is usually found in a precise and careful task.

The gravitational or magnetic containment fields used in the containers for these beverage are kept active when drunk, so as to prevent the beverage from explosively expanding outwards and thus being spilled and wasted.

Taste
For those who are able to taste such beverages, the taste of star wines often depend on the age of the star that they are harvested from. Wines created from the cores of young protostars are noted to be very light and sweet, due to the high concentrations of hydrogen. Those extracted from main sequence stars are less sweet but often more rich in flavour due to the wider variety of elements present in such concoctions. Red giant wine tends to possess a distinctive tangy flavour from the concentration of iron within. White dwarfs are usually equated to the stellar equivalent of vinegar; the electron degenerate matter they consist of is often found to be far too sour to be enjoyable for most palates.

The brave and foolhardy will sometimes favour neutronium beverages. Due to the extreme weight and instability of these types of wines, a common bet among drinkers is to make wagers on how many shots it takes to make someone explode.