Olsen Private Vineyards - Cape Blend Red, Paarl - 2015 (750ml)

Olsen Private Vineyards is a family-owned and run winery, set on a picturesque farm in the renowned wine region of Paarl, South Africa. The owners are Dr. Greg Olsen, entrepreneur-physicist, and the third civilian to go to the INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION in 2005, along with his daughters Kimberly and Krista.

Apart from owning and running Olsen Private Vineyards, Greg Olsen is an American entrepreneur, engineer, and scientist who, in October 2005, became the third private citizen to make a self-funded trip to the International Space Station.

After training for five months (900 hours) at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Moscow, he launched on a Russian Soyuz rocket TMA-7 on October 1, 2005, with Cosmonaut Valeri Tokarev and Astronaut Bill McArthur (Expedition 12). He then docked to the ISS on October 3 and returned to earth on Soyuz TMA-6 on October 11 with Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and Astronaut John Phillips (Expedition 11). He performed more than 150 orbits of the planet and logged almost 4 million miles of weightless travel during his ten days in space.