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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5065/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Space-aged Wine Bottle Could Get $1 Million' data-article-id='5630'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='6708'>For 14 months, a French wine aged in space. </span> <span data-start-time='6708' data-end-time='11521'>Now, it has returned to Earth to be sold.</span> <span data-start-time='11521' data-end-time='21396'>A single bottle from a case of space-aged Bordeaux is being put up for sale by the auction house Christie’s. </span> <span data-start-time='21396' data-end-time='25271'>It may cost up to $1 million.</span> <span data-start-time='25271' data-end-time='29792'>The wine is a 2000 vintage Petrus. </span> <span data-start-time='29792' data-end-time='39063'>It is considered a world-class red wine made from Merlot grapes in the Pomerol region of Bordeaux. </span> <span data-start-time='39063' data-end-time='42563'>The sale was announced Tuesday in London.</span> <span data-start-time='42563' data-end-time='47896'>Tim Triptree works for Christie’s wine and spirits division. </span> <span data-start-time='47896' data-end-time='54625'>He said the bottle adds to a “greater understanding of the maturation of wine.”</span> <span data-start-time='54625' data-end-time='61271'>The money from the sale will go to the European rocket company, Space Cargo Unlimited. </span> <span data-start-time='61271' data-end-time='67396'>The company has experimented with viticulture and microgravity. </span> <span data-start-time='67396' data-end-time='77417'>It launched the 12 bottles of Petrus 2000 in November 2019, and flew them to the International Space Station.</span> <span data-start-time='77417' data-end-time='82167'>The bottles were taken back to Earth in January. </span> <span data-start-time='82167' data-end-time='89750'>They spent almost 440 days, and about 300 million kilometers, in orbit.</span> <span data-start-time='89750' data-end-time='99250'>The wine returned to Bordeaux, where a bottle was opened for a taste test at the Institute for Wine and Vine Research. </span> <span data-start-time='99250' data-end-time='108083'>Top wine experts compared the space-aged wine with Petrus bottles that stayed on Earth.</span> <span data-start-time='108083' data-end-time='115542'>Jane Anson is a leading wine critic and a writer for the wine magazine Decanter. </span> <span data-start-time='115542' data-end-time='121604'>She and the other two experts thought there was a clear difference between the two.</span> <span data-start-time='121604' data-end-time='133000'>The space bottle “seems more evolved than I would expect from a 21-year-old bottle of Petrus 2000," Anson said in Decanter.</span> <span data-start-time='133000' data-end-time='140146'>It is beautiful and nuanced, with fine tannins and a sense energy.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5065/A.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=17392 data-hint-location='11521' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5065/what_is_an_auction.wav'>What is an auction?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='A public sale at which things are sold to the people who offer to pay the most'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5065/a_public_sale_at_which_things_are_sold_to_the_people_who_offer_to_pay_the_most.wav'><span>A public sale at which things are sold to the people who offer to pay the most</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5065/a_type_of_movie_genre.wav'><span>A type of movie genre</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5065/a_warning_to_minimize_risk.wav'><span>A warning to minimize risk</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5065/a_donation_or_giveaway.wav'><span>A donation or giveaway</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=17393 data-hint-location='82167' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5065/about_many_days_did_the_wine_spend_in_orbit.wav'>About many days did the wine spend in orbit?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='440'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5065/520.wav'><span>520</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5065/440.wav'><span>440</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5065/365.wav'><span>365</span></div><div class='choice' 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