The company Maison mumm, world-renowned manufacturer of sparkling wines challenged… earth’s gravity. Her latest brainchild – the bottle called Mumm Grand Cordon Stellar, especially designed for champagne, which will bring to space mission astronauts. Its presentation is to be held in September 2018. Should definitely add that Mumm Grand Cordon of the Stellar – fetus of a three-year partnership with a young company Spade, specializing in space research.
In recent years, the number of drinks in the menu of the crews of ISS increased significantly. Among them, espresso, beer and even whiskey space. In the queue – champagne. In terrestrial conditions in the behavior of the sparkling drink is simple and clear: because of the gravity of the wine through the neck of the inclined bottle flows down into the glass. In space in the absence of gravity changes the surface tension of champagne and it is like oily liquid sticks to the sides of the bottle.
Professionals Spade did not disclose the technological details of your product. Externally, it differs little from their earthly counterparts, with the exception of the unusual ring, stick the cork in the neck and the mechanism inside the bottle that carbon dioxide gas is completely turns the champagne into foam. It is in the form of foam, not liquid it flows, or rather swam out from an open bottle in a state of weightlessness.
Developers care about the glasses. They are small glass cups with a diameter of about 5 cm at the pointed cone-shaped stalk without a traditional cradle, as to put in zero gravity it is clearly not necessary. The inner surface of the Cup creates surface tension, holding the foam ball, until then, until it is consumed.
A few words about the taste characteristics of the space champagne. Once in the mouth, the foam turns into a liquid.
“It’s amazing. — says the master winemaker of Maison Mumm’s Didier Mariotti, Thanks to weightlessness, the liquid instantly covered the entire cavity of the mouth, enhancing the taste sensations from our unusual, unique beverage”.
Source — Mumm