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Want to Buy a Bottle of Wine Aged in Space?
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The auction house Christie’s is selling a bottle of wine that we can truly describe as out of this world. While the bottle in question, Pétrus 2000, is native to Earth, it’s spent the last 14 months aging aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Now that it’s touched back down to a terrestrial setting, the space-dwelling wine could fetch upwards of $1 million.
But the bottle of wine didn’t just travel to the ISS for the fun of it. (It’s not
that easy to go to space; just ask the billionaires.) It’s all part of a very expensive and incredibly fascinating study into how plants adapt to space conditions. The bottle, and 11 others, blasted off into space in November 2019 before returning to Earth in January 2021. While at ISS, they aged in a “carefully monitored and controlled environment.” Space Cargo Unlimited is the company running behind the program, which is aptly called Mission WISE (Vitis V
Christie’s Is Selling a Bottle of Wine That Spent 14 Months on the International Space Station. The Price Is Out of This World
The bottle of “space-aged” wine comes with a custom trunk and a meteorite corkscrew.
Call it the wine-al frontier.
A bottle of “space-aged” Pétrus 2000, which clocked 14 months aboard the International Space Station, is being offered at Christie’s auction house via private sale. It’s one of 12 bottles that was sent up into the cosmos in November 2019 by a group of researchers studying how agriculture responds to extraterrestrial conditions.
The bottles, supposedly the first ever to be sent to space, returned to Earth in January.
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By Toby Luckhurst
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image captionChristie s estimates a sale price of $1m (£720,000) for the wine and a normal bottle for comparison
A bottle of French wine that orbited the Earth for more than a year has been put up for sale.
The bottle of Pétrus 2000 - made from merlot grapes in the Bordeaux region - spent 14 months in orbit as part of a privately funded research study on food and agriculture.
On Tuesday Christie s announced the wine is now available through its private sales.
The auction house estimates a sale price of $1m (£720,000; €830,000).
Tim Triptree, a Master of Wine who works at Christie s, told the BBC a regular bottle of Pétrus 2000 will also be sold alongside the space-aged bottle, so the lucky buyer will be able to compare the two .