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BBC News By Toby Luckhurst image copyrightChristie's Images Ltd. 2021 image captionChristie's 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 Christie's announced the wine is now available through its private sales. The auction house estimates a sale price of $1m (£720,000; ...
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 Christie's 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 Christie's, told the BBC a regular bottle of Pétrus 2000 will also be sold alongside the space-aged b...