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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; �...

Christie's 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 Christie's. It will be sold alongside a bottle of "terrestrial" wine from the same vintage for easy comparison. "This bottle of Pétrus 2000 marks a momentous step in the pu...

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...

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 Christie's 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 Space Station. The auction house thinks a wine connoisseur might pay as much as $1 million to own ...