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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 wine connoisseur with a discerning palate — and a lot of money — there is a new frontier: space w...
Space-aged Bordeaux wine could fetch up to $1 million at auction Reuters Thursday, May 6th 2021, 10:27 am - A space-aged bottle of fine French wine that was literally matured in Earth orbit for 14 months will be offered for private sale by Christie’s auction house, in a wine cellar in Paris, France, May 6, 2021. 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 Christie's, and the auction house estimates it may fetch up to $1 million [USD]. The unprece...
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Christie’s Is Selling a Bottle of Wine That Spent 14 Months on the International Space Station. The Price Is Out of This World The bottle of “space-aged” wine comes with a custom trunk and a meteorite corkscrew. Call it the wine-al frontier. A bottle of “space-aged” Pétrus 2000, which clocked 14 months aboard the International Space Station, is being offered at Christie’s auction house via private sale. It’s one of 12 bottles that was sent up into the cosmos in November 2019 by a group of researchers studying how agriculture responds to extraterrestrial conditions. The bottles...