A bottle of wine that can cost up to a million dollars

Tim Tiptree, international director of Christie’s Wines and Spirits Department, said the wine “matured in a unique environment” of near zero gravity aboard the space station.

The trip turned a $ 10,000 wine known for its complexity, silky, ripe tannins, and dark cherry, cigar box and leather flavors into a scientific first, and it’s still a great bottle of wine, a said Tiptree.

“It’s a very harmonious wine that has the ability to age beautifully, which is why it was chosen for this experience,” he said. “It’s very encouraging that he tasted delicious when he came back to Earth.”

Private space company Space Cargo Unlimited put wine into orbit in November 2019 as part of an effort to make Earth’s plants more resilient to climate change and disease by exposing them to new stressors. Researchers also want to better understand the aging process, fermentation and bubbles in wine.

The proceeds from the sale will fund future research for Space Cargo Unlimited. Other bottles of the dozen that went into space are unopened, but Christie’s has said there are no plans to sell them.