May 16, 2008
music changes wine’s taste
Add this to the growing list of studies on the subjectivity of the human mind and wine. Turns out, not only are people incapable of telling white wine from red, or the quality of wine based on price — even when it’s the same wine — now it has been found that the music you listen to while drinking the wine enhances the flavor.
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.
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Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Flowers” is “subtle and refined”?
To a 3-year-old drinking wine, it is.
Oh, how I long to be three, sippin’ wine and swayin’ to “Waltz of the Flowers”. So subtle. So refined.
“Like a whore’s Christmas” — as an Aussie boss of mine described the girls’ get-ups at her six-year-old’s birthday party.
Yeah. Those were the days.
My favorite Subtle and Refined accoutrements from those glory years were, as I recall, a pair of clear acrylic open-backed kitten-heel pumps, each of which was garnished with a plastic orchid.
(But they weren’t as cool as my mother’s totally clear totally acrylic rhinestone-garnished two-and-a-half-inch-heel pumps. This was the late 1950s, probably ’round the time of the first recycling of Disney’s 1950 “Cinderella” . . . and my mom owned a pair of glass slippers. I was enchanted.)