After a year orbiting the globe, the galaxy's first wine aged in space underwent its first taste test back on Earth.
Sommeliers at the Institute for Wine and Vine Research in Bordeaux uncorked the $5,890 (€5,000) bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine this week and did a blind taste test compared with a bottle of the same wine that had aged in a cellar.
"I have tears in my eyes," Nicolas Gaume, CEO and co-founder of Space Cargo Unlimited (the company that executed the experiment), told The Associated Press after his first sip.
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Researchers in Bordeaux, France, are analyzing a dozen bottles of the precious liquid — along with 320 snippets of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapevines — that returned to Earth in January after a sojourn aboard the International Space Station.
BORDEAUX, France — It tastes like rose petals. It smells like a campfire. It glistens with a burnt-orange hue. What is it? A 5,000-euro bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine that spent a year in space.
They announced their preliminary impressions earlier this month — mainly, that weightlessness didn't ruin the wine and it seemed to energize the vines.
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