{"id":209903,"date":"2021-03-24T20:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T17:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tasters-savor-fine-wine-that-orbited-earth\/"},"modified":"2021-03-24T20:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T17:22:58","slug":"tasters-savor-fine-wine-that-orbited-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tasters-savor-fine-wine-that-orbited-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tasters savor fine wine that orbited Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Tasters savor fine wine that orbited Earth<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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BORDEAUX, France \u2014 It tastes like rose petals. It smells like a campfire. It glistens with a burnt-orange hue. What is it? A 5,000-euro bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine that spent a year in space.<\/p>\n

Researchers in Bordeaux are analyzing a dozen bottles of the precious liquid \u2014 along with 320 snippets of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapevines \u2014 that returned to Earth in January after a\u00a0sojourn aboard the International Space Station<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They announced their preliminary impressions Wednesday \u2014 mainly, that weightlessness didn\u2019t ruin the wine and it seemed to energize the vines.<\/p>\n

Organizers say it\u2019s part of a longer-term effort to make plants on Earth more resilient to climate change and disease by exposing them to new stresses, and to better understand the aging process, fermentation and bubbles in wine.<\/p>\n

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Darriet holds a bottle of Petrus red wine that spent a year orbiting the world in the International Space Station. At a one-of-a-kind tasting this month, 12 connoisseurs sampled one of the space-travel<\/a>ed wines, blindly tasting it alongside a bottle from the same vintage that had stayed in a cellar.<\/figcaption>
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At a one-of-a-kind tasting this month, 12 connoisseurs sampled one of the space-traveled wines, blindly tasting it alongside a bottle from the same vintage that had stayed in a cellar.<\/p>\n

A special pressurized device delicately uncorked the bottles at the Institute for Wine and Vine Research in Bordeaux. The tasters solemnly sniffed, stared and eventually, sipped.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have tears in my eyes,\u201d Nicolas Gaume, CEO and co-founder of the company that arranged the experiment, Space Cargo Unlimited, told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Alcohol and glass are normally prohibited on the International Space Station, so each bottle was packed inside a special steel cylinder during the journey.<\/p>\n

At a news<\/a> conference Wednesday, Gaume said the experiment focused on studying the lack of gravity \u2014 which \u201ccreates tremendous stress on any living species\u201d \u2014 on the wine and vines.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are only at the beginning,\u201d he said, calling the preliminary results \u201cencouraging.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bordeaux Mayor Pierre Hurmic checks glasses of wine, with one glass containing wine that spent a year orbiting the world in the International Space Station.
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Jane Anson, a wine expert and writer with the wine publication Decanter, said the wine that remained on Earth tasted \u201ca little younger than the one that had been to space.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chemical and biological analysis of the wine\u2019s aging process could allow scientists to find a way to artificially age fine vintages, said Dr. Michael Lebert, a biologist at Germany\u2019s Friedrich-Alexander-University who was consulted on the project.<\/p>\n

The vine snippets \u2014 known as canes in the grape-growing world \u2014 not only survived the journey but also grew faster than vines on Earth, despite limited light and water.<\/p>\n

Once the researchers determine why, Lebert said that could help scientists develop sturdier vines on Earth \u2014 and pave the way for grape-growing and wine-making in space.<\/p>\n

Christophe Chateau of the Bordeaux Wine-Makers\u2019 Council welcomed the research as \u201ca good thing for the industry,\u201d but predicted it would take a decade or more to lead to practical app<\/a>lications. Chateau, who was not involved in the project, described ongoing efforts to adjust grape choices and techniques to adapt to ever-warmer temperatures.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe wine of Bordeaux is a wine that gets its singularity from its history but also from its innovations,\u201d he told The AP. \u201cAnd we should never stop innovating.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Stephanie Cluzet, Head of Vine Researcher Institute for Wine and Vine Research (ISVV) holds up a snippet of grapevines, left, that spent a year orbiting the world, in the International Space Station, and compared with another sample of grapevine of the same age and same grape variety grown on earth, at the ISVV in Villenave-d\u2019Ornon, southwestern France, Monday, March 1, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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Private investors helped fund the project, which the researchers hope to continue on further space missions. The cost wasn\u2019t disclosed.<\/p>\n

For the average earthling, the main question is: What does cosmic wine taste like?<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, the difference between the space and earth wine \u2026 it wasn\u2019t easy to define,\u201d said Franck Dubourdieu, a Bordeaux-based agronomist and oenologist, an expert in the study of wine and wine-making.<\/p>\n

Researchers said each of the 12 panelists had an individual reaction. Some observed \u201cburnt-orange reflections.\u201d Others evoked aromas of cured leather or a campfire.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one that had remained on Earth, for me, was still a bit more closed, a bit more tannic, a bit younger. And the one that had been up into space, the tannins had softened, the side of more floral aromatics came out,\u201d Anson said.<\/p>\n

But whether the vintage was space-flying or earthbound, she said, \u201cThey were both beautiful.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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