Spaced out: Wine that orbited Earth up for sale with million-dollar price tag
04/05/2021, 3:02 pm
A bottle of Petrus red wine that spent a year orbiting the world in the International Space Station is pictured in Paris Monday, May 3, 2021. The bottle of French wine is up for a private sale at Christie’s, with a stratospheric price tag in the region of euro 1 million. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
The wine is out of this world, and the price is appropriately stratospheric.
Christie’s is selling a bottle of French wine that spent more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station, and the auction house believes a connoisseur might pay as much as a million dollars (£720,000) to own it.