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Zero gravity is no barrier to fine wine say researchers in Bordeaux who tasted a 5,000 euro bottle of Chateau Petrus Pomerol that spent 14 months in space.

The rare example of Pétrus 2000 was sent up to the space station 250 miles above our planet by Space Cargo Unlimited (SCU) and pre-sale estimates indicate that it could haul in an estimated $1 million via Christie’s Private Sales, with the proceeds going to fund future space missions. Credit: Christie's Auction House Ltd. “This bottle of Pétrus 2000 marks a momentous step in the pursuit of developing and gaining a greater understanding of the maturation of wine,” Tim Triptree, international director of Christie’s wine and spirits department, noted in a statement this we...

The World’s Only Space-aged Wine Is Going Up for Auction — and It’s Expected to Sell for $1 Million Stefanie Waldek © Provided by Travel + Leisure PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images Philippe Darriet, Director of the Oenology Research Unit Institute of Vines, Science and Wine (ISVV) holds a bottle of Petrus, at the University of Bordeaux Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin (Institute of Vine & Wine Science) in Villenave-d'Ornon, on the outskirts of Bordeaux, southwestern France, on March 1, 2021. Are you a wine connoisseur and a space lover? Well, get your wal...

A bottle of French wine that spent more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station is up for sale.

Private space startup Space Cargo Unlimited sent the wine into orbit in November 2019 as part of an effort to make plants on Earth more resilient to climate change and disease by exposing them to new stresses. Researchers also want to better understand the aging process, fermentation and bubbles in wine. At a taste test in March at the Institute for Wine and Vine Research in Bordeaux, France, a dozen wine connoisseurs compared one of the space-traveled wines to a bottle from the same vintage that had stayed in a cellar. Credit: AP A bottle of Petrus red wine that spent a year orbiting the wor...