Yes indeedy, baby mice wine.  It’s wine with, well, baby mice in it.

Found in China and Korea, this deliciousness is believed to be a cure-all health tonic.  Koreans in particular believe it can cure anything from asthma to liver disease.

This wine isn’t just baby mouse flavoured, or have one baby mouse inside.  Oh no, it has a whole pile of them, only a few days old, floating around at the bottom of the bottle.  Nasty huh?  Well it gets worse – the mice are plucked from their mother’s teet, placed in the bottle alive and drowned.  Perhaps that improves the flavour?  

Baby Mice Wine

One thing I haven’t clarified is whether the mice are eaten/drunk along with the wine, or just filtered out.  Surely if they are the source of the ‘goodness’, they should be crunched upon and ingested along with the wine.  

Baby Mouse Wine