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Christie’s is slated to auction a rare 1874 vintage of Perrier-Jouet Brut Millesime Champagne that is expected to fetch up to $20,000.

Christie’s is slated to auction a rare 1874 vintage of Perrier-Jouet Brut Millesime Champagne that is expected to fetch up to $20,000.

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Space-Aged Wine Bottle Could Get $1 Million The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:03:05 0:00 Pop-out player For 14 months, a French wine aged in space. Now, it has returned to Earth to be sold. A single bottle from a case of space-aged Bordeaux is being put up for sale by the auction house Christie’s. It may cost up to $1 million. The wine is a 2000 vintage Petrus. It is considered a world-class red wine made from Merlot grapes in the Pomerol region of Bordeaux. The sale was announced Tuesday in London. Tim Triptree works for Christie’s wine and spirits division. He said the ...

The extremely rare bottle of Pétrus 2000 ‘space wine’ is packaged in a bespoke trunk made by Parisian Maison d'Arts Les Ateliers Victor, and comes with a bottle of terrestrial Pétrus 2000, luxe decanter and wine glasses, as well as a corkscrew crafted from a meteorite. “This bottle of Pétrus 2000 marks a momentous step in the pursuit of developing and gaining a greater understanding of the maturation of wine,” said Tim Triptree, the international director of Christie’s wine and spirits department, in a statement. Proceeds from the auction will be used to fund future space missio...