Christie says space-going liquor could sell for $ 1 million

Alcohol is out of this world. The price is reasonably stratospheric.

Christie said on Tuesday that it is selling a bottle of French wine that spends more than a year aboard the International Space Station. The auction house thinks that wine enthusiasts can pay $ 1 million for it.

Paratrus is one of 12 bottles sent to space in 2000 November 2019, researchers have discovered the potential of extraterrestrial agriculture. Returned 14 months later, which changed according to wine experts, who sampled it for tasting in France.

Christie’s wine and spirits department’s international director Tim Tiptree said the wine in space was “ripe in a unique atmosphere” of zero gravity near the space station.

Tiptree said the voyage made the $ 10,000-a-bottle wine known for its complexity, silky, ripe tannins and black cherries, cigar box and leather flavors.

“It’s just a very harmonious wine that has the ability to age brilliantly, which is why it was chosen for this experiment,” he said. “It is very encouraging that it was delicious to return to Earth.”

Private space startup Space Cargo Cargo Unlimited sent wine to Earth in November 2019 by exposing plants to new stresses in an effort to make plants more resilient to climate change and disease. Researchers want to better understand the aging process, fermentation, and bubbles in wine.

In a taste test in March at the Wine and Wine Research Institute in Bordeaux, France, a dozen wine connoisseurs compared space-traveled wines from the same vintage to a bottle that stayed in a cellar.

He noted a difference that was difficult to describe. Jane Anson, a writer with the wine publication, stated that the wine that remains on Earth is slightly smaller, the space version slightly softer and more aromatic.

The wine, offered by Christie at a private sale, comes with a bottle of terrestrial patteras of the same vintage, a decanter, goggles, and a corkscrew crafted from a meteorite. All of this is conducted in a hand-crafted wooden trunk with decorations inspired by science fiction pioneer Julus Vern and the “Star Trek” universe.

Future research will be extended beyond sales by Space Cargo Unlimited. Many of the dozen other bottles in the space remain closed, but Christie says he has no plans to sell any of them.

Tiptree says the price estimate, “in the region of $ 1 million,” reflects the possibility of selling a mix of wine enthusiasts, space enthusiasts and wealthy people who collect the “ultimate experience”.

The lot includes a 2000 Petrus bottle that remains on Earth, so shoppers can compare the two – should they decide to open the one that went into orbit.

“I hope they decide to drink it, but probably not immediately,” Tiptree said. “It is at its peak, but this wine will probably last for at least another two or three decades.

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