A special champagne for astronauts: Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar

Arushi Sakhuja 

Sipping on a glass of bubbly in space might have been a dream for many astronauts every time they break new ground. Well now, astronauts can celebrate in style, with a glass of champagne. G.H. Mumm, in collaboration with Axiom Space (a privately owned space exploration company) and a wide variety of experts in the fields of design and space engineering, has launched a new bottle, Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar, making the dream come true.

Creating a new era of human history, Mumm Cording Rouge Stellar, is the first champagne that can be tasted in space and that will embark on future human space flights. Both the bottle and champagne have been manufactured to suit the zero gravity ambience in space. After four years of this new phase of research of development, Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar is ready for future space flights.

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With its futuristic appearance, Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar nevertheless has a shape that’s similar to a traditional champagne bottle and stays true to its French identity. However, to make it suitable for outer space, Octave de Gaulle, the founder of an agency that specializes in designs for space, wrapped the bottle in aeronautical-grade aluminium and introduced a stainless-steel opening and closing device.

The upper part, known as the service part, is composed of a long neck topped by a cork and a ring (which allows the cork to be retained and locks the bottle’s stainless steel mechanism). Once opened, the champagne has to be poured carefully; since traditional pouring isn’t quite possible in zero gravity. A stainless steel ring at the neck of the bottle keeps the cork secure and allows for safe uncorking, while a button on the bottom of the bottle allows for seamless serving.  The champagne exits through the neck and collects in the ring that once held the cork, and can then be poured into a special glass.

But that’s not all, Cellar Master Laurent Fresnet created a special blend for this, taking into account the change in parameters whilst tasting in space.​ “My goal was to retain the freshness and power of Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar, and to enhance the intensity of its aromas with more ageing and a dosage liqueur made with wines aged in oak barrels,” he explains. ​The special blend withstands the sensory changes that occur when one is in flight. The Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar is made with grapes from the 2016 harvest—a majority of which are Pinot Noir grapes—supplemented with reserve wines from the past five years, the brand said.

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