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WineAgedInSpaceFor
More Than A Year
Expected To Sell For $1M
By Ben Hooper
May 5 (UPI) -
- Auction house Christie's announced a bot- tle of French wine that spent more than a year aging on the International Space Station is expected to sell for around $1 mil- lion.
Christie's said the bottle of Petrus 2000 was one of a dozen bottles of wine that were launched into orbit in 2019 and spent nearly 440 days in space before being brought back to earth.
A bottle of the wine that spent time in space was compared to a bottle that aged on Earth in a tasting that fea- tured a dozen wine profession- als and scien- tists, and the panel said the space bottle was found to have its own unique flavor profile.
"The aromatics were more floral and more smoky -- the things that would happen anyway to Petrus as it gets older," Jane Anson, a journalist and wine researcher who participated in the tasting, told the BBC.
Christie's said the bottle of wine is being sold with a second bottle that was aged on Earth so the buyer can com- pare the two. The sale also includes "a decanter, glasses and a corkscrew made from a meteorite."
"After spending almost 440 days
in space, or the equivalent of 300 trips to the moon, legendary Bordeaux wine Petrus comes back having been transformed in a way which is, lit- erally, out of this world," Nicolas Gaume, CEO of Space Cargo Unlimited, the startup that sent the wine to the space station, said in a Christie's news release.
Christie's said the wine bottle is available immedi- ately through a private sale, with proceeds going toward funding future space mis- sions and wine research.
Menu From 1913 Found In Rafters Of British Cafe
By Ben Hooper
May 6 (UPI) -
- Workers doing renovations on a cafe in England made a surprising discovery inside the ceiling -- a menu from the restaurant that occupied the building in 1913.
Natalie Haywood, owner of Leaf in Liverpool, said workers doing renovations on the building found a menu for Yamen Cafe and Tea Rooms,
dated Jan. 15, 1913, in the rafters.
Haywood said the workers also found a waiter's hat embroidered with the word "Yaman" and the instructions for a card game called "whist and bot- tles."
"Down came flut- tering from the ceiling this menu from 108 years ago. It's in absolutely unbe- lievable condi- tion,"
Haywood told CNN.
Haywood told the BBC the menu is "like a time cap- sule hidden in the walls."
She said Leaf plans to try to recreate some of the dishes listed on the menu.
"To see what they were doing then, how forward- thinking and cre- ative as a restau- rant, is so inspir- ing," she said.