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		</div><p>“I have tears in my eyes,” said Nicolas Gaume, chief executive and co-founder of the company that arranged the experiment, Space Cargo Unlimited, as the bottles were carefully uncorked at the Institute for Wine and Vine Research in Bordeaux.</p>
<p>“When you expose wine, when you expose cells, plants to an environment without gravity… we create tremendous stress on any living species,” he said.</p>
<p>Jane Anson, a wine expert and writer with The Decanter, said the wine that remained on Earth tasted “a little younger than the one that had been to space”.</p>
<p>Chemical and biological analysis of the wine’s ageing process could allow scientists to find a way to artificially age fine vintages, said Dr Michael Lebert, a biologist at Germany’s Friedrich-Alexander-University.</p>
<p>The vine snippets – known as canes in the grape-growing world – not only all survived the journey but also grew faster than vines on Earth, despite limited light and water.</p>
<p>It is too early for the researchers to determine why. But when they do, Dr Lebert said that could help scientists develop sturdier vines on Earth — and pave the way for grape-growing and wine-making in space.</p>
<p>Plus, he said, “Grapes… are very healthy for the astronauts.”</p>
<p>Private investors helped fund the project, though the overall cost was not disclosed.</p>
<p>For the average earthling, the main question is: What does cosmic wine taste like?</p>
<p>“For me, the difference between the space and earth wine… it wasn’t easy to define,” said Franck Dubourdieu, a Bordeaux-based agronomist and oenologist, an expert in the study of wine and wine-making.</p>
<p>Researchers said each of the 12 panellists had an individual reaction. Some observed “burnt-orange reflections”. Others evoked aromas of cured leather or a campfire.</p>
<p>“The one that had remained on Earth, for me, was still a bit more closed, a bit more tannic, a bit younger. And the one that had been up into space, the tannins had softened, the side of more floral aromatics came out,” Ms Anson said.</p>
<p>But whether the vintage was space-flying or earthbound, she said, “They were both beautiful.”</p>
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