14 months of wine in outer space sold for Rp.14 billion, how does it taste?

Liputan6.com, Jakarta- Not just on Earth, wine can also skyrocket to outer space.

On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, Christie’s said it was selling a bottle of wine French who had orbited for more than a year in space while aboard the International Space Station.

To have the drink, a wine expert is believed to be interested in paying up to US $ 1 million or around Rp.14.4 billion.

Reported VOA Indonesia, Thursday (6/5/2021,) Pétrus 2000 is one of 12 bottles sent into space in November 2019 by researchers exploring the potential of agriculture space. The wine returned to Earth, 14 months later.

However, according to wine experts who tasted the drink at an event at French, the taste has changed a little.

Tim Tiptree, international director of the wine and alcohol department at Christie’s, explains that space wine is “ripened in a unique environment” close to zero gravity above the space station.

Tiptree also revealed that the space trip turned the Rp. 144.38 million per bottle of wine known for its complex, smooth taste, ripe tannins and flavors of black cherries, cigar boxes and skins into an unusual scientific finding. However, in his opinion, it was still a fine bottle of wine.

“It’s a very harmonious wine that has the ability to ripen incredibly. That’s why it was chosen for this experiment,” said Tiptree.

“It’s very encouraging that it feels good to be back on Earth,” he said.

In November 2019, a private space startup, Space Cargo Unlimited, sent the wine into orbit as part of an effort to make Earth’s plants more resilient to climate change and disease by exposing them to new pressures.

In addition, researchers also want to better understand the ripening, fermentation and bubbling processes in grapes.

Then in a taste test in March 2021, at the Institute for Wine and Vine Research in Bordeaux, French, dozens of wine connoisseurs compare one of the wines ever taken into space with a bottle of wine from the same year that was once stored in the cellar.

They noted differences that were difficult to explain.

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