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.
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Private space startup Space Cargo Unlimited sent the wine into orbit in November 2019 as part of an effort to make plants on Earth more resilient to climate change and disease by exposing them to new stresses. Researchers also want to better understand the aging process, fermentation and bubbles in wine.
At a taste test in March at the Institute for Wine and Vine Research in Bordeaux, France, a dozen wine connoisseurs compared one of the space-traveled wines to a bottle from the same vintage that had stayed in a cellar.
They noted a difference that was hard to describe. Jane Anson, a writer with the wine publication Decanter, said the wine that remained on Earth tasted a bit younger, the space version slightly softer and more aromatic.
Space-aged wine for sale after spending 14 months on International Space Station
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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 Christieâs, with a stratospheric price tag in the region of euro 1 million. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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LONDON â The wine is out of this world and the price is stratospheric.
A bottle of French red wine that flew around earth aboard the International Space Station for 14 months is up for sale.
Decanter Petrus wine aged in space to go on sale at Christie’s for possible $1million
A bottle of Petrus 2000 that spent more than a year in space orbiting the earth is set to be offered for sale by Christie’s, the auction house has announced.
May 4, 2021 The bespoke case up for sale includes both Petrus space and earth-aged wines. Credit: Christie s Images Ltd 2021.
Petrus 2000 ‘space wine’ after Christie’s announced it would be offering a bottle via private sale.
A Christie’s spokesperson confirmed the estimated sale price was in the region of $1m (£720,000).
As part of the deal, the buyer will also get a bottle of ‘terrestrial’ Petrus 2000 and a corkscrew ‘made from a meteorite’, as well as a decanter and glasses, Christie’s said today (4 May).