SPACE WINE EXPECTED TO SELL FOR $1 MILLION

Christie’s auction house is selling a bottle of French wine that spent more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station. The auction house thinks a wine connoisseur might pay as much as $1 million to own it. The Pétrus 2000 is one of 12 bottles sent into space in November 2019 by researchers exploring the potential for extraterrestrial agriculture. It returned 14 months later subtly altered, according to wine experts who sampled it at a tasting in France. The trip turned a $10,000-a-bottle wine known for its complexity, silky, ripe tannins and flavors of black cherry, cigar box and leather into a scientific novelty.
* Except, after you drink it, you turn into the Incredible Hulk.
* How does this work? They threw chunks of cigar boxes and pieces of leather into the kegs?
* Am I supposed to believe somebody can taste the difference in a bottle of wine after 14 months?
* Heck, any scam that can fleece an idiot millionaire is okay by me.
* You can’t tell me the wine hasn’t picked up the general bouquet of the space station which, I believe, is farts.