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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...

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Philippe Darriet, president of the Institute for Wine and Vine Research (ISVV) and chief oenologist, holds a bottle of Petrus red wine that spent a year orbiting the world in the ISS. — Photos: AP It tastes like rose petals. It smells like a campfire. It glistens with a burnt-orange hue. What is it? A €5,000 (RM24,330) bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine that spent a year in space. Researchers in Bordeaux are analysing a dozen bottles of the precious liquid – along with 320 snippets of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapevines – that returned to Earth in January after a sojourn aboard the Int...

We'll know in February whether it's delicious or awful.

Twelve bottles of Bordeaux wine and 320 vines that have returned to earth after a year-long stay in space are set to be analysed by scientists...