Bottle of Wine Aged in Space for Over a Year Costs $1 million

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Auction house Christie’s announced a bottle of French wine that spent more than a year aging on the International Space Station will sell for around $1 million.

Christie’s said the bottle of Petrus 2000 was one of a dozen bottles of wine that were launched into orbit in 2019. They spent nearly 440 days in space before being brought back to earth.

A bottle of the wine that spent time in space was compared to a bottle that aged on Earth in a tasting that featured a dozen wine professionals and scientists. According to the panel, the space bottle had its own unique flavor profile.

“The aromatics were more floral and more smoky — the things that would happen anyway to Petrus as it gets older,” Jane Anson, a journalist and wine researcher who participated in the tasting, told the BBC.

Christie’s said the bottle of wine is being sold with a second bottle that was aged on Earth so the buyer can compare the two. The sale also includes “a decanter, glasses and a corkscrew made from a meteorite.”

“After spending almost 440 days in space, or the equivalent of 300 trips to the moon, legendary Bordeaux wine Petrus comes back having been transformed in a way which is, literally, out of this world,” Nicolas Gaume, CEO of Space Cargo Unlimited, the startup that sent the wine to the space station, said in a Christie’s news release.

Christie’s said the wine bottle is available immediately through a private sale, with proceeds going toward funding future space missions and wine research.

One thought on “Bottle of Wine Aged in Space for Over a Year Costs $1 million

  1. Really, that’s wherewe are at, spending a million dollars for a freaking bottle of wine with tinkets when we have people starving, children dying in hospitals from cancer and other issues. Whomever steps forward to actually waste that type of money should be brought out into public for their arrogance and stupidity. I like a good wine but at that cost is plain pretentious!

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