The stratospheric value of a Petrus wine aged in space: it will be the most expensive ever sold

A bottle of French wine To fart to harvest 2000 What spent 14 months in space was offered for sale by the auction house Sotheby’s, what is your estimate price in millions of dollars.

The bottle is part of a set of 12 sent to the International Space Station (EEI) in November 2019. If your sale price approaches or reaches the estimate during a private sale, it will be the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold.

Tests carried out by 12 wine professionals and scientists from Institute of Vine and Wine Sciences of the University of Bordeaux showed that the To fart leftovers “a great wineAfter your stay in space.

After a blind tasting, however, they noticed some differences “notable”Of color, aroma and flavor between celestial and terrestrial version.

Tim tiptree, international director of the wines and spirits department of Christie, said that the wine “matured in a unique environment“Almost zero gravity aboard the space station. The journey turned a $ 10,000 wine known for its complexity, silky, ripe tannins, and flavors of black cherry, cigar box and leather into a scientific novelty, and it’s still a great bottle of wine, a he declared. Tiptree. “It is 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 it’s delicious when he returns to Earth.“.

This is the first time that the IEE transports a wine into space and ages it in a controlled environment as part of six experiments by the European startup Space Cargo Limited, which studies the future of agriculture and food in the Earth. The proceeds from the sale will be used to fund future agriculture-focused space missions.

the To fart “space” It is offered in a secret safe handcrafted in France by The Victor Workshops, which required 900 hours of work. The bottle hides behind a solar system inspired by Julio Verne, and the box opens with a mechanism linked to the universe of Star Trek. It comes with another bottle of To fart “Earth“, a corkscrew made from a meteorite, glasses and a decanter.

The record for the most expensive bottle in the world is held by a Romanée Conti of Burgundy vintage 1945, sold to $ 558,000 in Sotheby’s at new York in 2018. Petrus will not be auctioned but will be the subject of a private sale. By this operation the price and the buyer are only revealed if the latter authorizes it.

“After spending 440 days in space, the equivalent of 300 trips to the moon, the legendary wine Petrus de Bordeaux returns after having been literally transformed into something extraordinary.“, He said Nicolas gaume, co-founder and president of Unlimited Space Cargo, that’s a statement. The cellar Chateau Petrus who produces this wine monovarietal of the strain Merlot is located in the region of Bordeaux, in the original call Pomerol.

A classic bottle of Petrus 2000, considered a great harvest, sells today for around $ 5,500 according to Wine.com. This specialist site describes it as a wine with a huge body, creamy, with “aromas of smoke, blackberry, cherry, liquorice and incomparable nuances of truffle and undergrowth“,”more massive and macho, masculine, with more obvious tannins and structure“What others To fart from previous harvests.

(With information from AFP and AP) .-

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