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OENOPHILES’ DELIGHT
When 12 bottles of Château Pétrus 2000 returned from 14 months spent orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station, the only question oenophiles wanted answered was, “How does it taste?” Space wine, as it’s now known, entered the stratosphere with a global retail price of $6,488 per bottle, and returned in 2021 with an estimated value of $1 million. Such is the global intrigue around how light, movement, temperature and, in this case, the absence of gravity or the presence of microgravity affect the development of wine.
While circling the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of 17,498 miles per hour is a rather excessive stress test, the cost of high-end wine cellars that are finding their way into penthouses, superyachts and private jets has also gone intergalactic.
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