Check fruit or root before you buy
Posted on 04/21/2009 2:39:45 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Supermarkets are arranging wine tasting sessions around "good" and "bad" days as dictated by the lunar calendar. So does the Moon really change the taste of wine? A German great-grandmother called Maria Thun is wielding huge influence on the British wine industry. A calendar she first published in the 1950s categorises days as "fruit", "flower", "leaf" or "root", according to the Moon and stars. Wine is best on fruit days, followed by flower, leaf and root days. The worst day is marked as "unfavourable" in the calendar. (See factbox below for forthcoming "good" and "bad" days). Tesco and Marks & Spencer are the latest supporters of her philosophy. The two supermarkets have revealed that they have a policy of inviting critics to taste their wine only on days which the calendar says are favourable. Her theory is that wine is a living organism that responds to the Moon's rhythms in the same way that some people believe humans do. The so-called "lunar effect" has been widely dismissed as pseudo-science but its followers think that as the Moon exerts such a huge impact on the tides, it must follow that it affects the water in the human body and therefore human behaviour.
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Check fruit or root before you buy
I’ll need some time to prove this theory.
Well, we know the moon affects doing laundry,
Scientists have proven it effects Tide.
If you believe it affects the taste of wine, then, to YOU it most certainly does affect the taste.
I remember way back when Audiophile had an article about listening to speakers in a dark room with a flashlight. Shine the flashlight on a speaker, and that speaker will sound ‘different’. I’m sure to the observer who believed this, it most certainly did sound different.
However, the microphone, oscilloscope and audio analyzer must not be sensitive enough to tell the difference; as they recorded no difference whatsoever. This is the nature of subjective things, like taste and sound.
The moon bats always seem to whine a lot more during a full moon does that count?
wine tastes good to me on any day
A few years ago, I would have been into this. Since Obama, all wine tastes sour.
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Hic...
Tight-slacked clad girls on the graveyard shift
neath the cement stroll
Catch the midnight drift
Cigar chewing charlie
In that newspaper nest
Grifting hot horse tips
On who’s running the best
And I’m blinded by the neon
Dont try and change my tune
cause I thought I heard a saxophone
I’m drunk on the moon
And the moons a silver slipper
Its pouring champagne stars
Broadways like a serpent
Pulling shiny top-down cars
Laramer is teeming
With that undulating beat
And some bonneville is screaming
Its way wilder down the street
(chorus)
Hearts flutter and race
The moons on the wane
Tarts mutter their dream hopes
The night will ordain
Come schemers and dancers
Cherry delight
As a Cleveland-bound greyhound
And it cuts throught the night
And I’ve hocked all my yesterdays
Dont try and change my tune
cause I thought I heard a saxophone
I’m drunk on the moon
—Tom Waits
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My mother was carefully taught by her father to do everything in accordance with the phases of the moon. Planting, slaughtering medicating and everything should be accomplished by the Farmers Almanac including some actions that should occur only when the signs were right.
Since she was from French Swiss ancestry in the wine country the article seems in tune with very ols paractices
Some time and a lot of wine...
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