Booze in Space! Champagne for Astronauts as France-based Company Mumm Launches Zero Gravity Bottles

The Space tourists can finally celebrate their arrival in the final frontier with a few glasses of bubbly. After few years of hard work, popular Champagne producers Pernod Ricard’s G.H. Mumm & Cie, in northern France is finally ready to launch the first-ever champagne this year in September for astronauts to drink in space. Yes, scientists can booze in zero gravity! They have shared a video showcasing how drinking in space would be, because for obviously it is not going to be in the similar manner as it is on Earth.

After much of a wait, the French-based company announced its new Mumm Grand Cordon Stellar vintage, a bubbly designed with space exploration in mind. The new space champagne is the outcome of a three-year long partnership with a space design agency Spade. Didier Mariotti, Mumm’s cellar master explained, “Because of zero gravity the liquid instantly coats the entire inside of the mouth, magnifying the taste sensations. There’s less fizziness and more roundness and generosity.” This high-tech bottle uses the Champagne’s carbon dioxide to expel the wine into a ring-shaped frame, where it is focused into droplet of bubbles.

Watch video of Grand Cordon Stellar Space Champagne project! 

It is further reported that the G.H. Mumm & Cie will be first served on the zero-gravity flights which have been organised by the company Air Zero G and discussions are on to get it on space flights and commercial space missions. With ideas to host Luxury Space Hotel by 2021, space tourism is surely going to be a popular trend and hence, with the recent innovative project, the company has got in early to send whole celebratory experience of Champagne.  Be ready to pop a bottle of the world’s finest zero-gravity champagne!

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