Ano nga ba ang lasa ng red wine kung sa kalawakan pinahinog sa loob ng 14 na buwan?
Sa isang ulat ng Reuters, sinabi ng Christie's auction house na maaaring umabot sa $1 milyon ang halaga ng bawat bote ng Petrus 2000 red wine na dinala sa International Space Station.
Nobyembre 2019 nang dalhin sa ISS ang 12 bote ng Petrus 2000 bilang bahagi ng eksperimento ng start-up Space Cargo Unlimited.
"Yes, the conditions were very different from the bottles that were kept here on Earth. So zero gravity, different obviously levels of radiation, different temperature. So the temperature was kept between 18 and 20 degrees. So relatively constant,’’ ayon kay Tim Tiptree, international director ng Christie's wine and spirits department.
''I mean, both the space Petrus and the terrestrial Petrus are both tasting fantastically well. But it turns out the ones that were sent into space, they have seemed to evolve more quickly," patuloy niya.
Ipinaliwanag din ni Tiptree na nagkaroon ng kaibahan sa kulay ng alak na pinahinog sa lupa kompaya sa pinahinog sa kalawakan.
"With time in bottle evolution, the wines do tend to turn from sort of purple reds when they're really young to mahogany garnet when they're older. So the ones that went into space were slightly more on the sort of mahogany garnet range and also had slightly more tertiary characteristics. So tertiary characteristics are what things like leather, cedar, cigar box that come with bottle maturation and the ones that returned from the International Space Station were slightly more involved. They had more of that tertiary characters," paliwanag pa niya. --Reuters/FRJ, GMA News
