A Chinese company is fishing for a new wine market with such varieties as shrimp, tuna, abalone and crab.

An entrepreneur with a background in the fishing industry founded the Dalian Fisherman's Song Maritime Biological Brewery. The company's fish wine sells for about $6 per bottle.

The fish is boiled, then mixed with rice and fermented for at least one month.

Company officials said they have received orders from Russia, Japan and the United States. Eight varieties of fish are used to make the wine.

http://www.nbc4.tv/food/4755814/detail.html

The words "ew" "gross" and "why?" come to mind.

:spew: though I did eat squid jerky in my omni days bought from an asian market.

Eww. . . weirdest thing since cloned meat. :spew:

That is the dumbest thing ever!! Geez, what will they think of next?

Canteloupe wine, hopefully.

wow fish wine ...... something fishy about that :worried:

I just can't see it not that it would matter anyway

Just the idea of it so grossed me out :spew: that I didn't bother to read the entire article. :no:

I saw this on CNN yesterday. Apparently, they process it in some special way so that it doesn't taste or smell like fish, which led me to ask myself, "Then why bother?" Then they started talking about the "unique" health properties of fish, and how there was fish protein and fish nutrients in the wine. At that point, it started sounding like a big scam to me.

Of course some normal wine uses the swim bladders of a certain fish in the fining process but theoretically never become part of the wine.

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"doesn't taste or smell like fish, which led me to ask myself, "Then why bother?""
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Unfortunately many people are weird and get a kick out of eating strange animal things just for the novelty of it.