Wine from Space is aging faster than on Earth, why? All pages

KOMPAS.com- Some time ago, cargo outer space SpaceX back from the station Outer space International (ISS), and brought home a number of items, incl Grape or drinks Red grape.

The researchers also conducted a study of several red wine drinks that have been on the ISS for about a year.

In that study, as reported from Room, Thursday (6/5/2021), showed that in addition to changes in the taste of wine, this drink seems to be aging faster than the wines on Earth.

Previously, researchers sent 12 bottles of Bordeux wine to the space station using the Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo plane in November 2019.

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Cargo spacecraft do not just carry food supplies for ISS astronauts.

But also bring some stuff to study how gravity or the zero gravity environment in outer space can affect grapes or wines as they age.

Grape It remained in a closed tube in the orbiting laboratory for 438 days and 19 hours before returning to Earth on the cargo spacecraft SpaceX Dragon in January 2020.

Compared to a bottle of the same wine aging at the same time on Earth, red wine is aging International space station, maybe much older, one to two years, or even three years older.

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SHUTTERSTOCK / K. DECHA Illustration of wine, wine fermented drink.

“It’s actually maybe one to two or even three years more evolved than you would expect from an aging wine on Earth,” said wine author Jane Anson.

Anson was one of 12 panelists who participated in the taste test after the wine returned from space.

Of the panelists, five (including Anson) were professional wine tasters.

For the first part of the test, the panelists were given three glasses of wine, without knowing which glass contained wine from outer space.

“At that time we were looking for aromatics and visuals, if we could see a difference. “We basically have to choose which of the three is different,” said Anson.

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“And among them, I saw the difference in the evolution of the color of the wine in one of them. I don’t know which one, “he added.

For the second part of the test, the panelists made a direct comparison by tasting the two wines. According to Anson, the taste of these two wines is fantastic.

“One of the main things to look at first is, is this wine durable? Are both of them good quality? And the answer is definitely, yes, “said Anson.

“Unanimously, both wines are considered fine wines, which means that despite staying for 14 months on the International Space Station, ‘space wine’ is evaluated sensory very well,” said Philippe Darriet, a researcher at the University of Bordeaux, France.

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