{"id":242423,"date":"2021-05-04T22:29:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T19:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/christies-says-wine-that-went-to-space-could-sell-for-1-million\/"},"modified":"2021-05-04T22:29:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T19:29:14","slug":"christies-says-wine-that-went-to-space-could-sell-for-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/christies-says-wine-that-went-to-space-could-sell-for-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"#Christie\u2019s says wine that went to space could sell for $1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Christie\u2019s says wine that went to space could sell for $1 million<\/strong>”
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The wine is out of this world. The price is app<\/a>ropriately stratospheric.<\/p>\n

Christie\u2019s said Tuesday it is selling a bottle of French wine that spent more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station. The auction house thinks a wine connoisseur might pay as much as $1 million to own it.<\/p>\n

The P\u00e9trus 2000 is one of 12 bottles sent into space in November 2019 by researchers exploring the potential for extraterrestrial agriculture. It returned 14 months later subtly altered, according to wine experts who sampled it at a tasting in France.<\/p>\n

Tim Tiptree, international director of Christie\u2019s wine and spirits department, said the space-aged wine was \u201cmatured in a unique environment\u201d of near zero-gravity aboard the space station.<\/p>\n

The trip<\/a> turned a $10,000-a-bottle wine known for its complexity, silky, ripe tannins and flavors of black cherry, cigar box and leather into a scientific novelty \u2014 and still a fine bottle of wine, Tiptree said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a very harmonious wine that has the ability to age superbly, which is why it was chosen for this experiment,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s very encouraging that it was delicious on return to Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

They noted a difference that was hard to describe. Jane Anson, a writer with the wine publication Decanter, said the wine that remained on Earth tasted a bit younger, the space version slightly softer and more aromatic.<\/p>\n

The wine, being offered by Christie\u2019s in a private sale, comes with a bottle of terrestrial P\u00e9trus of the same vintage, a decanter, glasses and a corkscrew crafted from a meteorite. It\u2019s all held in a hand-crafted wooden trunk with decoration inspired by science<\/a> fiction pioneer Jules Verne and the \u201cStar Trek\u201d universe.<\/p>\n

Proceeds from the sale will fund future research by Space Cargo Unlimited. Several other bottles from the dozen that went to space remain unopened, but Christie\u2019s says there are no plans to sell any of them.<\/p>\n

Tiptree says the price estimate, \u201cin the region of $1 million,\u201d reflects the sale\u2019s likely appeal to a mix of wine connoisseurs, space buffs and the kind of wealthy people who collect \u201cultimate experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lot includes the bottle of 2000 P\u00e9trus that remained on Earth so the buyer can compare the two \u2014 should they decide to open the one that went into orbit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would hope that they will decide to drink it, but maybe not immedia<\/a>tely,\u201d Tiptree said. \u201cIt\u2019s at its peak drinking, but this wine will last probably another at least another two or three decades.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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