Astronomical price for the "space wine"

This wine is truly unique in a way that is quite spectacular. The red Bordeaux wine from renowned vineyard Pétrus has in fact aged more than a year in space at the international space station ISS. The wine is made from merlot grapes in Pomerol and as the wine returned to earth it was blindtested by experts. They found that the wine had severe differences in color, aroma and taste and they got associations to aged leather, cherrys, licorice and burned oranges for example. Now this “space wine” is up for auction at Christie’s and is coming, as you guessed, with a literally astronomical price. The record (at the moment) for the most expensive wine ever sold by an auction house was a bottle of Romanée-Conti from 1945 which was sold for $559 000 US in 2018. However, Christie’s estimates this “space wine” from Pétrus to fetch around $1 million US!

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