To make the perfect wine you need sweet music, according to Austrian winemakers

By Daily Mail Reporter
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Forget selecting a wine with a good nose. For a truly delicious drink, you may want to find one with a good ear.

Playing music to fermenting grape juice results in wine that tastes better, according to a group of winemakers in Austria.

Markus Bachmann, a former French horn player, has created a tiny speaker that can be inserted directly into liquid and plays a mixture of classical, jazz and electronic tunes. 

He believes the soundwaves make yeast cells move around so they absorb more sugar, and create good vibes during the maturing process.

‘The wines get more fruity, they get mature earlier. All the flavours stand alone much better,’ the 44-year-old said.

Bachmann has teamed up with six Austrian producers to make a 31,000-litre test batch of musically-influenced Sonor Wines, including a 2010 pinot blanc infused with Mozart’s 41st Symphony and a 2010 Zweigelt exposed to a selection of arias.

Winemaker Franz-Michael Mayer played waltzes and polkas to his semillon wine for three weeks and said: ‘I get the sense that it tastes different, good.’

But Werner Gruber, a University of Vienna physicist, dismissed Bachmann’s method as ‘rubbish’. 

He added: ‘Yeast, fungi, don’t have opinions. They really don’t care if AC/DC, Madonna or Mozart is played to them.’


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