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Want to Buy a Bottle of Wine Aged in Space? Twitter 0 comments The auction house Christie’s is selling a bottle of wine that we can truly describe as out of this world. While the bottle in question, Pétrus 2000, is native to Earth, it’s spent the last 14 months aging aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Now that it’s touched back down to a terrestrial setting, the space-dwelling wine could fetch upwards of $1 million. But the bottle of wine didn’t just travel to the ISS for t...

For most wine drinkers, a budget bottle from the grocery store is perfectly sufficient. But for the adventurous wine connoisseur with a discerning palate —

Wednesday, May 5, 2021 by Becky Sullivan (NPR) The bottle of Pétrus 2000 spent 14 months on the International Space Station. It will be sold alongside a "terrestrial" bottle of the same vintage. Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. For most wine drinkers, a budget bottle from the grocery store is perfectly sufficient. But for the adventurous w...

A bottle of red wine that aged for 14 months on the International Space Station is up for sale and could fetch up to $1 million awilliams@insider.com (Annabelle Williams) © Christies Christies 12 bottles of wine were sent to the ISS in 2019 to study the effect of space on wine aging. One of those bottles is now up for sale at Christies and reportedly may fetch $1 million. Christies auction house is selling what may be the most out-of-this-world bottle of wine ever to hit the ...

Space exploration and wines have nothing in common, but there is one bottle that dared to go where no other bottle has been. Space, the final frontier for wine.

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...

Bottles of wine aged on ISS now on their way back to Earth with SpaceX Dragon Listen - 01:48 The upgraded SpaceX cargo Dragon undocked from the ISS on Jan. 12. NASA TV SpaceXs upgraded Dragon resupply spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on Tuesday with a lot of precious cargo on board. When it splashes back down to Earth on Wednesday, it will return 12 bottles of wine and 320 grape ...