Hillebrand Gori coordinated the special transport of 12 bottles of 2000 Bordeaux Grand Cru that was unlike any other vintage.
As a global logistics provider that moves wines around the world every day, what could be different about moving wine from Houston to Bordeaux? In this case, it had everything to do with where the wine was stored at the time. When Hillebrand Gori was approached about this project, these wines were in outer space. Yes, that’s right, they were 400 km above our heads on the International Space Station, orbiting our planet 15 times a day.
Now, whenever space travel is involved, you have to throw in some fun facts:
The wine was aboard the International Space Station cruising around at a speed of 27,580 km/hr (or 4.76 miles per second) in zero-gravity and subject to solar radiation.
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft gave the wine a lift from Cape Canaveral on November 2nd, 2019 and the bottles were in space 438 days and 19 hours.
Could this be the longest trip for a wine shipment? We’ll let you do the fact-checking, but these wines covered roughly 290,000,000 km in distance (that would be the same as circling the earth almost 7,250 times).
