Incredible: this bottle of French wine is truly unaffordable
Some people store expensive wine in their cellar, while others have a special wine climate cabinet. This extremely expensive Bordeaux was stored in a very special way, and as a result it is now the most expensive wine in the world. What?!? This wine was taken into space and orbited the Earth for almost fourteen months.
The label says Pétrus, a Bordeaux that can be aged exceptionally well, becoming better and more delicious (and more expensive) each year. While you pay more than 2,000 euros for the 2013 vintage, a bottle from the popular 2000 vintage can easily set you back more than 5,000 euros. No wonder, because the winery in Pomerol is known as the very best in the world, where money plays no role whatsoever when it comes to making the perfect wine. For example: when it rained during harvest season in 1987, helicopters dried the grapes before they were picked.
Then better send it into the skies
The University of Bordeaux wanted to know what happens to the quality of wine when it goes into space. So they decided to send twelve bottles of Pétrus to the International Space Station. What happens to the wine? Will it taste better, will the wine’s aging process speed up or slow down? And can the astronauts keep their hands off it, or will they open one of those bottles for fun with their meal of pouches and test tubes, because really, who’s going to stop them?
All the bottles remained sealed and returned to Earth after fourteen months in space. There, experts tasted them carefully and did discover differences between the space-travel wine and the bottles that had simply remained in the cellar. A different color, a slightly different taste, but it was still a fantastic wine, according to the tasters.
Wine for science
One of the twelve bottles will soon be auctioned. The auctioneer expects a substantial sum, because it is such a special bottle. From one million euros, it is said, and the bidders will remain anonymous at this auction. The proceeds will go to an agricultural project and to follow-up research in space, so in a way, the decadent wine sale is also funding science. For comparison: the most expensive wine to date was a bottle of 1945 Romanée-Conti, which changed hands for $558,000.
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Source: Teller Report
