Music can enhance the taste of wine

It may sound bizarre and, personally, I’d have thought it would be the other way around, but apparently music can enhance the taste and flavour of your favourite wine.

A study by Herriott Watt University in Edinburgh found that changes in taste of up to 60% could occur when differing background melodies were heard.

The heady red wine cabernet sauvignon and the light white chardonnay were two of the vinos in question.

In a stark likeness to the actual body of the wines, cabernet sauvignon’s taste improved with “powerful and heavy” music, whilst the white chardonnay worked best with “zingy and refreshing” tunes.

Red wine drinkers were most affected by Carl Orff’s bolshy ‘Carmina Burana’, whilst the white wine tasters enjoyed the delicate floatiness of Petr Tchaikovsky’s ‘Waltz of The Flowers’ from The Nutcracker Suite.

Professor Adrian North, who led the study, said: “Wine manufacturers could recommend that while drinking a certain wine, you should listen to a certain sort of music.”

Somehow, we don’t think it will have been hard for the researchers to gather volunteers for this particular study.

Maybe if DietPixie listens to Metallica while we neck a bottle of rioja we might get even more pissed…

Source: BBC News

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