From: Bill Causer ()
Date: May 16, 2008
Subject:
Re: (amb) OT- Music 'can enhance wine taste'
Or just excess alcohol in general.
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> I always felt it was the other way around - excess wine enhances music.
>
> J.
> www.numinamusic.com
>
> > I want to try red wine while listening to Meshuggah.
> >
> > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Simon Bauch wrote:
> >
> >> (From BBC news)
> >>
> >> *Playing a certain type of music can enhance the way wine tastes,
> >> research
> >> by psychologists suggests.*
> >>
> >> The Heriot Watt University study found people rated the change in taste
> >> by
> >> up to 60% depending on the melody heard. (...) Four types of music were
> >> played - Carmina Burana by Orff ("powerful and heavy"), Waltz of the
> >> Flowers
> >> from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky ("subtle and refined"), Just Can't
> >> Get
> >> Enough by Nouvelle Vague ("zingy and refreshing") and Slow Breakdown by
> >> Michael Brook ("mellow and soft")
> >>
> >> The white wine was rated 40% more zingy and refreshing when that music
> >> was
> >> played, but only 26% more mellow and soft when music in that category
> >> was
> >> heard. The red was altered 25% by mellow and fresh music, yet 60% by
> >> powerful and heavy music.
> >>
> >> The results were put down to "cognitive priming theory", where the music
> >> sets up the brain to respond to the wine in a certain way.The research
> >> was
> >> carried out for Chilean winemaker Aurelio Montes, who plays monastic
> >> chants to his maturing wines. (!!)
> >>
> >> -
> >>
> >> I tried the test myself listening to ambient, then the heaviest stuff I
> >> found (Tool). My red tasted about the same as usual, "Maybe taste will
> >> change after the second glass? No.. Third?" Bang! zzzzzzz
> >>
> >> Simon
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tommy Graham
> >
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