Space wine: a bottle of Petrus aged in …

A bottle of French wine Petrus vintage 2000, what happened 14 months in space it was offered for sale by Sotheby’s. The auction house is priced at one million dollars.

The bottle is part of a batch of 12 shipped to the International Space Station (ISS) in November 2019. If its selling price approaches or reaches the estimate at a private sale, it will be the most recent bottle of wine. most expensive ever sold. .

Tests carried out by 12 wine professionals and scientists from the Institute of Vine and Wine Sciences of the University of Bordeaux have shown that the Petrus there remains “a great wine” after its stay in space.

After a blind tasting experts noted “noticeable” differences in color, aroma and flavor compared to wines of the same brand that were not in space.

It’s the first time a wine was brought to the ISS and aged in space in a controlled environment as part of six experiments by European startup Space Cargo Limited, which studies the future of agriculture and food on Earth.

The The proceeds from the sale will be used to finance the next space missions focused on agriculture.

The Petrus “space” is offered in a secret safe handcrafted in France. by Les Ateliers Victor, which required 900 hours of work. The bottle is hidden behind a solar system inspired by Jules Verne, and the box opens with a mechanism linked to the Star Trek universe.

It is accompanied by another bottle of “earthly” Petrus, a corkscrew made from a meteorite, glasses and a decanter.

The record for the most expensive bottle in the world is held by a Burgoña Romanée-Conti vintage 1945, sold for $ 558,000 at Sotheby’s in New York in 2018.

The Petrus It will not be auctioned but will be the subject of a private sale.. By this operation the price and the buyer are not disclosed unless authorized by the latter.

“After spending 440 days in space, the equivalent of 300 trips to the moon, the legendary wine Petrus de Bordeaux returns after having literally transformed into something extraordinary”, declared Nicolas Gaume, co- founder and president of Space Cargo Unlimited, that’s a statement.

The Château Petrus bodega that produces is Monovarietal wine of the Merlot strain is located in the Bordeaux region, in the original Pomerol appeal.

A classic bottle of Petrus 2000, considered a great vintage, sells today for around $ 5,500 according to Wine.com.

This specialized site describes it as a wine with an enormous, smooth body, with “aromas of smoke, blackberry, cherry, liquorice and incomparable nuances of truffle and undergrowth”, “more massive and macho, masculine, with more evident tannins and structure. “than other Petrus from previous harvests.