A bottle of wine aged in space could sell for $1 million how and why it tastes different than Earth-bound wine CNBC 1 hr ago Tom Huddleston Jr. © Provided by CNBC Christie s is selling a bottle of Chateau Petrus 2000 that spent 14 months aging aboard the International Space Station while orbiting Earth.
A bottle of red wine that spent more than a year in space could end up being the most expensive wine ever sold.
Christie s is selling a bottle of Pétrus 2000 that was aged for 14 months aboard the International Space Station (ISS) before returning to Earth in January. And the British auction house estimates will ultimately fetch a price in the region of $1 million.
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Seguin Moreau Debuts QTT Barrel
Posted on February 23, 2021
NAPA, Calif., After more than ten years of research and development conducted in collaboration with the Institute of Vine and Wine Sciences (ISVV) in Bordeaux, Seguin Moreau is proud to unveil the QTT barrel.
QTT, or the molecules quercotriterpenosides, are a new family of oak compounds found to play a key role in sensory profiles of wines aged in barrels and are responsible for the sensation of “sugariness” and sweetness in dry wines.
The discovery of QTT and of a structurally close sub-family Glu-AB, molecules characterized by their bitterness, provide scientific explanations for oak-aged wines’ taste balance. Previously the volume, sweetness and roundness seen during oak aging wine had been unexplained. Extensive research by the teams of Professor Denis Dubourdieu and Doctor Axel Marchal (ISVV) uncovered new correlations, which were followed by five years of studies and analysis first to determine with certain