Philippe Darriet, president of the Institute for Wine and Vine Research (ISVV) and chief oenologist, holds a bottle of Petrus red wine that spent a year orbiting the world in the ISS. Photos: AP
It tastes like rose petals. It smells like a campfire. It glistens with a burnt-orange hue. What is it? A 5,000 (RM24,330) bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine that spent a year in space.
Researchers in Bordeaux are analysing a dozen bottles of the precious liquid – along with 320 snippets of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapevines – that returned to Earth in January after a sojourn aboard the International Space Station.
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