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By www.iHeartToby.com WHO GOT THE HOOCH??! In case you missed it, a bottle of Petrus 2000, was launched into space on November 2nd, 2019...and stayed aboard the International Space Station until January 14th of this year. It got aboard the space station as part of an experiment conducted by Space Cargo Unlimited which is doing research on the future of agriculture. Now it’s up for auction, and it’s estimated to go for at least $1-million. If you’re going to drop that kind of cash on a ...

Space-aged Bordeaux wine offered for private sale by Christies This content was published on May 5, 2021 - 05:09 May 5, 2021 - 05:09 By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - A space-aged bottle of fine French wine, part of a case of Bordeaux that was literally matured in Earth orbit for 14 months, is being put up for private sale by Christies, and the auction house estimates it may fetch up to $1 million. The unprecedented offering of the 2000 vintage Petrus, an exclusive, world-class red produced from Merl...

A bottle of Bordeaux aged in space is expected to sell for $1 million A bottle of Bordeaux wine that was aged for 14 months on the International Space Station (ISS) is up for sale — and it could fetch $1 million. The Château Pétrus 2000 was part of an experiment carried out by start-up Space Cargo Unlimited to see how conditions in space affect wine. Auction house Christie’s said in a statement that it is offering the bottle for immediate sale, rather than at auction, and the proceeds wil...

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...

Space-aged wine for sale after spending 14 months on International Space Station Christophe Ena/AP 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) and last updated 2021-05-04 13:32:50-04 LONDON — The wine is out of this world and the pri...

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: Christies Images Ltd 2021. Petrus 2000 ‘space wine’ after Christie’s announced it would be offering a bottle via priv...