Popular auction house Christie’s has announced the selling of a bottle of a French wine that has spent over a year in space, aboard the International Space Station.
According to Tim Tiptree, International Director of Christie’s wine and spirits division, the wine has ‘matured in a unique environment’ of near zero-gravity aboard the space station. The wine is called Pétrus 2000, one of 12 bottles that were sent in space in November 2019 aboard Space Cargo Unlimited by researchers exploring the potential for extraterrestrial agriculture and help make plants in space more resilient to climate change by exposing them to new stresses. As per wine experts in France, it has returned with subtle changes.
This space-wine bottle comes with a decanter, glasses and a corkscrew that’s crafted from a meteorite. It’s displayed in a hand-crafted wooden trunk which was inspired by the popular sci-fi franchise, Star Trek. This will also include its sibling from Earth to help the buyer compare the differences between the two. The wine bottle that’s known to already sell for a premium of $10,000 which is popular for its complex, silky, ripe tannins and flavors of cherry, cigar box and leather is now expected to be priced at around $1 million a pop.
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