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For 14 months, a French wine aged in space.
一款法国葡萄酒在太空陈酿了14个月。
Now, it has returned to Earth to be sold.
现在，它已经返回地球出售。
A single bottle from a case of space-aged Bordeaux is being put up for sale by the auction house Christie's.
佳士得拍卖行将拍卖一箱超龄波尔多葡萄酒中的一瓶。
It may cost up to $1 million.
它的估价可能高达100万美元。
The wine is a 2000 vintage Petrus.
这款酒是2000年份的帕图斯葡萄酒。
It is considered a world-class red wine made from Merlot grapes in the Pomerol region of Bordeaux.
它被认为是波尔多波美洛地区的梅洛葡萄酿制的世界级红酒。
The sale was announced Tuesday in London.
这笔交易是周二在伦敦宣布的。
Tim Triptree works for Christie's wine and spirits division.
蒂姆·特里普特里就职于佳士得的葡萄酒和烈酒部门。
He said the bottle adds to a "greater understanding of the maturation of wine."
他说，这瓶酒增加了“对葡萄酒成熟过程的更好理解”。
The money from the sale will go to the European rocket company, Space Cargo Unlimited.
这笔钱将捐给欧洲火箭公司“太空货运无限”。
The company has experimented with viticulture and microgravity.
该公司已经对葡萄栽培和微重力进行了试验。
It launched the 12 bottles of Petrus 2000 in November 2019, and flew them to the International Space Station.
该公司于2019年11月发行了12瓶 帕图斯2000，并将它们送往国际空间站。
The bottles were taken back to Earth in January.
这些酒于1月份被带回地球。
They spent almost 440 days, and about 300 million kilometers, in orbit.
它们在轨道上运行了近440天，大约3亿公里。
The wine returned to Bordeaux, where a bottle was opened for a taste test at the Institute for Wine and Vine Research.
葡萄酒又回到了波尔多，在那里的葡萄酒和葡萄研究所开了一瓶酒进行品尝测试。
Top wine experts compared the space-aged wine with Petrus bottles that stayed on Earth.
顶级葡萄酒专家将太空陈酿的葡萄酒与留在地球上的帕图斯葡萄酒进行了比较。
Jane Anson is a leading wine critic and a writer for the wine magazine Decanter.
简·安森是葡萄酒杂志《品醇客》的知名葡萄酒评论家和作家。
She and the other two experts thought there was a clear difference between the two.
她和其他两位专家认为这两者之间有明显的区别。
The space bottle "seems more evolved than I would expect from a 21-year-old bottle of Petrus 2000," Anson said in Decanter.
安森在《品醇客》杂志上说，太空酒“看起来比我想象的收藏了21年的帕图斯 2000更香醇。”
"It is beautiful and nuanced, with fine tannins and a sense energy."
“它出色而细腻，丹宁酸也恰到好处，感觉充满活力。”
The wine investment company Vinovest says a bottle of Petrus 2000 usually costs about $5,366.
葡萄酒投资公司Vinovest说，一瓶帕图斯2000的价格通常在5,366美元左右。
One sold at auction for $51,660 in 2018.
2018年，其中一瓶在拍卖会上以51660美元的价格售出。
Christie's is selling a bottle of the space-aged wine, along with a bottle of the original Earth-aged Petrus 2000.
佳士得将出售一瓶太空陈酿的葡萄酒，以及一瓶地球陈酿的帕图斯2000。
The purchase also includes a set of glasses and a corkscrew made from a meteorite.
这次拍卖还包括一套眼镜和一个由陨石制成的开瓶器。
Christie's says the sale price could reach $1 million.
佳士得表示，拍卖价格可能达到100万美元。
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