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BBC News By Toby Luckhurst image copyrightChristies Images Ltd. 2021 image captionChristies estimates a sale price of $1m (£720,000) for the wine and a normal bottle for comparison A bottle of French wine that orbited the Earth for more than a year has been put up for sale. The bottle of Pétrus 2000 - made from merlot grapes in the Bordeaux region - spent 14 months in orbit as part of a privately funded research study on food and agriculture. On Tuesday Christies announced the wine is now av...

Christies Images Ltd. 2021 For most wine drinkers, a budget bottle from the grocery store is perfectly sufficient. But for the adventurous wine connoisseur with a discerning palate — and a lot of money — there is a new frontier: space wine. A bottle of "space-aged" Pétrus 2000, a luxury wine that recently returned from a 14-month spin on the International Space Station, can now be purchased via the auction house Christies. It will be sold alongside a bottle of "terrestrial" wine from t...

Wine matured in space put up for sale A bottle of French wine that orbited the Earth for more than a year has been put up for sale. The bottle of Pétrus 2000 - made from Merlot grapes in the Bordeaux region - spent 14 months in orbit as part of a privately-funded research study on food and agriculture. On Tuesday Christies announced the wine is now available through its private sales. The auction house estimates a sale price of $1m (£720,000). Tim Triptree, a Master of Wine who works at Chr...

A bottle of French wine that spent more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station is up for sale.

Jill Lawless 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 will be auctioned at Christies auction house. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) May 04, 2021 - 6:09 AM LONDON - 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...

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 th...

A dozen bottles of Pétrus 2000 spent 14 months in space   One of the wine bottles is set for sale and is expected to go for $1 million  Wine connoisseurs tasted one of the wines and said it matured faster This was compared to the same wine that had remained on Earth  The space wine was said to have a taste of rose petals with notes of campfire, along with a brick-like coloring 

Space-aged French wine expected to fetch huge bid, Christies says Issued on: 04/05/2021 - 17:16 French red wine aged aboard the International Space Station could fetch around $1 million, Christies auction house says. © FRANCE 24 Advertising Read more 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 mi...

LONDON -- The wine is out of this world. The price is appropriately stratospheric. Christies 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 US$1 million to own it. The Petrus 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...

Wine that went to space for sale with $1 million price tag JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3A 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.Christophe Ena/APShow MoreShow Less 2of3A bottle of Petrus red wine that spent a year orbiting ...