PARIS – A bottle of French wine that orbited the Earth for more than a year has been put up for sale.
The bottle of Pétrus 2000 – made from Merlot grapes in the Bordeaux region – spent 14 months in orbit as part of a privately-funded research study on food and agriculture.
On Tuesday Christie’s announced the wine is now available through its private sales.
The auction house estimates a sale price of $1M.
Space Cargo Unlimited sent 12 bottles of the wine to the International Space Station in November 2019. After more than 400 days in space, travelling around 300 million kilometers in zero gravity, the wine returned to Earth in January 2021.(BBC)
