French Wine In Space For 14 Months On Sale

Have you ever wondered how a bottle of French wine that orbited the Earth for more than a year would taste?

A bottle of Petrus 2000, which spent 14 months aboard the International Space Station is up for sale.

And the auction house Christie’s expects a sale price of 1 million U.S. dollars.

The buyer will also get a regular bottle of Petrus that stayed on Earth, alongside the space-aged bottle, to compare the two.

“Both were absolutely gorgeous, but again following the colour, the one that had remained on Earth for me was still a little bit more closed, a bit more tannic, a bit younger. And the one that had been up into space, the tannins had softened, the side of more floral aromatics came out. They were both beautiful. The one that had remained on Earth was a little younger than the one that had been to space.”

The wine was sent to space to see how the aging process would develop outside Earth’s atmosphere.

The wine is one of 12 bottles of Bordeaux, as well as 320 snippets of grapevines that were sent into orbit.

Other bottles from the dozen will remain unopened and Christie’s says there are no plans to sell them.

This is the first time bottles of wine were sent to space.