An article by Jonathan Ray was posted on telegraph.co.uk last week explaining how the position of the moon can effect how a wine tastes. seriously!?!

Seems Maria Thun and her son Matthias wrote a book When Wine Tastes Best: A Biodynamic Calendar For Wine Drinkers that categorizes days as fruit, flower, leaf or root days depending on the position of the moon. They conclude that fruit and flower days are best for tasting wine.

This might sound crazy, but there are those who believe it. "I was sceptical at first, but then had a eureka moment," says Jo Aherne, winemaker at Marks & Spencer. "Our wines showed beautifully at a press tasting one day and far less well the next. We couldn't understand it. The wines were all favourites of ours and the bottles were all from the same case. Someone checked the calendar and we found that the first day had been a fruit day, when the wines were expressive, exuberant and aromatic, and the second a root day, when they were closed, tannic and earthy. Further rather unscientific tests have confirmed our view."

"I know it sounds the most frightful hocus-pocus," says Doug Wregg, director of marketing and sales for Les Caves de Pyrène, "But the more we investigated, the more we found the calendar to be accurate. Wines that smelt and tasted great on fruit or flower days were noticeably less attractive on leaf or root days. I agree that there are other variables that need to be taken into account, but it's a bit like Pascal's Wager and whether or not you believe in God. You've nothing to lose by following it. Our last half dozen tastings have been on fruit days and have been successes."

After reading the full article, we were not convinced of the concept, but experimentation will be fun. Maybe we will have to start tasting our wines and planning our events with a nod to the moon.