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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 ...

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...

A dozen bottles of Pétrus 2000 spent 14 months in space   One of the wine bottles is set for sale and is expected to go for $1 million  Wine connoisseurs tasted one of the wines and said it matured faster This was compared to the same wine that had remained on Earth  The space wine was said to have a taste of rose petals with notes of campfire, along with a brick-like coloring 

Space-aged French wine expected to fetch huge bid, Christie's says Issued on: 04/05/2021 - 17:16 French red wine aged aboard the International Space Station could fetch around $1 million, Christie's auction house says. © FRANCE 24 Advertising Read more 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 it. The Pétrus 2000 is one of 12 bottles sent into space in ...