Wine that spent over a year in space for sale with $1 million price tag
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LONDON (AP) - The wine is out of this world. The price is appropriately stratospheric.
Christie’s said Tuesday it is selling a bottle of French wine that spent more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station. The auction house thinks a wine connoisseur might pay as much as $1 million to own it.
A bottle of Bordeaux aged in space is expected to sell for $1 million
A bottle of Bordeaux wine that was aged for 14 months on the International Space Station (ISS) is up for sale and it could fetch $1 million.
The Château Pétrus 2000 was part of an experiment carried out by start-up Space Cargo Unlimited to see how conditions in space affect wine.
Auction house Christie’s said in a statement that it is offering the bottle for immediate sale, rather than at auction, and the proceeds will be used to fund future space missions.
Tim Triptree, Christie’s international director of wine and spirits, told CNN the sale is expected to make in the region of $1 million.
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Christie’s is offering a space-aged bottle of fine French wine, which was part of a case of Bordeaux that was literally matured in Earth orbit for 14 months, for private sale, with the auction house estimating it could fetch up to $1 million.
The proceeds will go to Space Cargo Unlimited, a private European rocket company that launched 12 bottles of Petrus 2000 to the International Space Station in November 2019 as part of a series of viticulture and microgravity experiments. After nearly 440 days in orbit, or about 186 million miles (300 million kilometers), the dozen bottles of Petrus were returned to Earth in January this year aboard a SpaceX cargo capsule.