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LONDON — The wine is out of this world. The price is appropriately stratospheric. Christie’s said Tuesday, May 4, 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. The Pétrus 2000 is one of 12 bottles sent into space in November 2019 by researchers exploring the potential for extraterrestrial agriculture. It returned 14 months later subtly altered, according to wine experts who sampled it at a tasting in France. Tim Tiptree, international director of Christie’s wine and spirits department, said the space-aged wine was “matured in a unique environment” of near zero-gravity aboard the space station.

Wine that spent over a year in space for sale with $1 million price tag

Wine that spent over a year in space for sale with $1 million price tag Published  Welcome aboard! Crew-2 astronauts arrive at the International Space Station After a nearly 24-hour journey from Earth, the astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon Endeavour have arrived at the International Space Station! 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.

Wine that went to space is up for sale with a $1 million price tag

Wine that spent 14 months in space to go under the hammer with $1 mn price tag

The World s Only Space-aged Wine Is Going Up for Auction — and It s Expected to Sell for $1 Million

The World’s Only Space-aged Wine Is Going Up for Auction and It’s Expected to Sell for $1 Million Stefanie Waldek © Provided by Travel + Leisure PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images Philippe Darriet, Director of the Oenology Research Unit Institute of Vines, Science and Wine (ISVV) holds a bottle of Petrus, at the University of Bordeaux Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin (Institute of Vine & Wine Science) in Villenave-d Ornon, on the outskirts of Bordeaux, southwestern France, on March 1, 2021. Are you a wine connoisseur and a space lover? Well, get your wallet ready. The world s only space-aged wine is hitting the auction block at Christie s but it ll cost you.

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