Have you ever drunk "wine made with music"? Your first reaction is "music can still make wine?" "But don't believe it, there are drinks that "grew up" listening to music, and you've definitely seen the last one.
Studies have shown that the drinking environment may affect the taste of wine. Listening to soft jazz music and tasting wine at a candlelit dinner may make a better impression on you. A study published in the British Journal of Psychology found that when people describe the taste of wine, they are influenced by the background music they hear while drinking, and the descriptions they make often fit the theme of the music.
George Hanson, winemaker at Seven Stones Winery in Okanagan, Canada, believes that music affects the taste of wine, so he installed surround sound speakers in the winery to play classical music 24 hours a day. He believes that this frequency can affect the maturation process of the wine, resulting in a better tasting wine.
The vibration mentioned by Hansen is an electromagnetic wave. When electromagnetic waves pass through various media such as soil, air, liquids, or our body, it affects the movement of molecules. Therefore, it is also said that it can affect the environment and even our DNA.
While there is a huge controversy about this claim, some curious winemakers have started some experimentation. For example, there is a winemaker in Austria who plays music to promote yeast work during the fermentation of grape juice; A winemaker in Siena, Italy, played Mozart's music for his vine for ten years on 56 speakers; There are also many winemakers who play music in the cellars where the barrels are stored, allowing the wine to age to the sound of music.
But what you may not know is that in our China, there is also plum wine matured by listening to the guqin, and in the winery in the southwest corner, the plum tea cellar of the vintage pottery altar is flowing with the sound of a thousand-year-old guqin. The sound of the piano flows slowly in the sake brewery, blending with the plum wine. This cup of plum wine made from the guqin embodies the brewer's unique understanding and innovation of sake, and realizes the synaesthesia of hearing and taste for drinkers.
Imagine that the sound of the mountain flowing guqin is intertwined with plum wine, as if you can meet that bosom friend and taste the unique charm of Chinese culture together. So, what kind of taste experience will this kind of plum wine, which is slowly brewed in the sound of the guqin, bring? Why don't you try it out for yourself and feel the unique charm!