What does wine aged in space taste like? Experts weigh in on the ultra-rare £700,000 bottle
A bottle of Pomerol that spent over a year in space is being offered for private sale at Christie's - this is what it tastes like
16 May 2021 • 4:00pm
The rare wine, being sold with a comparison bottle of ‘terrestrial’ Petrus 2000, decanter, glasses, and a corkscrew made from a piece of meteorite
Credit: Christie's Images Ltd. 2021
Buzz Aldrin took communion when he landed on the moon in 1969, sipping wine from a silver cup that he kept in his “personal preference” kit. Russian cosmonauts also enjoyed a sharpener during those early days of space travel, when they were given Cognac rations onboard Mir to “stimulate their immune system,” according to Chris Carberry’s book