Following in the footsteps of Maynard from Tool andLil Jon, Geoff Tate from Queensrÿche is now producing wine, and his reasons for starting the project were somewhat amusingly told to the Salt Lake City Tribune. Plus, Friday seems like an excellent day for some "Silent Lucidity"!
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Research funded by a Chilean winemaker has revealed that certain types of music actually pair well with certain types of wine, with various sonic qualities allegedly enhancing certain aspects of the wine's taste and body "up to 60%." Cognitive priming theory—in which music preps the brain to react to other aspects of a person's environment—results in cabernet sauvignon's taste being apparently well suited to "powerful and heavy" music; Chardonnay pairing well with "zingy and refreshing" music; syrah going nicely with "subtle and refined" songs; and merlot being well-matched with "mellow and soft" selections. (Unfortunately, Boone's Farm wasn't mentioned in the study's findings, perhaps because any classic rock automatically makes it taste "totally freaking awesome" to all the college students embarking on long, dark nights of the soul who were surveyed.) After the jump, a few recommended pairings via my music collection and knowledge of wine:
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Thanks to ProHipHop for doing the legwork and finding out that Little Jonathan Vineyards is, in fact, a winery belonging to Lil Jon, who's smartly realized that the energy-drink market has hit its turn-of-the-millennium peak and that it's time for him to diversify his beverage portfolio a little bit. What with this wine and similar efforts from Miranda Lambert, Maynard James Keenan, and Vince Neil, my dreams of opening up a music-themed wine bar may actually happen! (We can cheat a little on the food by modifying recipes from Rachael Ray's cookbooks.) [ProHipHop]
Rock-writer-beloved country singer Miranda Lambert has a bunch of wines named after her songs—like Kerosene, pictured—thanks to her family, who started the Red 55 Winery in conjunction with another winemaker down in Texas. Two new blends are scheduled to come out this month, and while I do quite enjoy both the songs they're honoring, I have to wonder about the logic of naming wine after either "Gunpowder & Lead" (a description of the flavors, perhaps?) or "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" (especially since it's a sweet wine—hello, girl-drink drunks who are feeling a little frisky!). Since said wine isn't available for shipping to New York yet, I can't evaluate them properly, but I hope for her sake that she doesn't let Maynard James Keenan get his hands on a case. Dude is more vicious than Robert Parker!
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