Red, white and rosé wines have been around for hundreds of years, and if you’ve gotten a little bored with them you'll be happy to know that you can now enjoy a cup of bright blue wine, as well.

 

红色、白色和玫瑰色的葡萄酒已经存在了几百年，如果你已经对它们提不起什么兴趣了，那你一定很高兴知道你现在可以品尝到亮蓝色的葡萄酒了。
 

 

Spanish startup Gïk has spent the last two years working with scientists at the University of the Basque Country and food researchers at Azti Tecnecalia, and they have recently unveiled the fruits of their labor¹ - the world's first blue wine! Why blue you ask? "Gïk is born for fun," the company's official site responds. "To shake things up a little and see what happens. To create something new. Something different. Why a blue wine you wonder? And why not?"

 

Co-founder Aritz López told Eater that the inspiration for the unique color of the wine came from Blue Ocean Strategy, a book written by W. Chan Kim, a Korean-born business theorist. "He tells about red oceans in his book, representing business markets saturated² by specialists (sharks) who fight for the same variables and for a reduced number of clients (fish), and end up in water turned red. And how it's necessary to revert³ this, by innovating⁴ and creating new variables, back to blue. This seemed poetic⁵ for us to turn a traditionally red beverage⁶ into a blue one," he said.

 

The six young innovators behind Gïk - all of whom are in their 20's - use a blend of red and white grapes harvested from vinyards in La Rioja, Zaragoza, León and Castilla-La Mancha to make their unique wine, but they say the varieties are not important in creating the bright saphire-like color of the drink. They do that by mixing in anthocyanin, a natural pigment⁷ in the grapes' skin, as well as indigo⁸ – a dye extracted from the Isatis tinctoria plant - to make the effect even more visually impressive.

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