Wine loving guinea pigs!

A Science experiment that includes drinking wine....

How could we decline, Professor Charles Spence from Oxford who is conducting the worlds biggest experiment of its kind that tests your senses. Can colour affect taste? Does sound affect taste?

We were asked to firstly put this 'tasting' paper strip on our tongue for 15 secs and rate on a scale of 1-10 how bitter it was, this apparently measured our taste buds, whether we were super tasters!

Following this, we were given red wine poured in black wine glasses and were lead into a large room where we were asked to face the wall. Coloured lights were flashed and random music played. Between the changes we were asked to sip our wine and rate our how fruity it tasted, it's intensity and how we enjoyed it! I defiantly found a difference in taste, I have to say.

It was fun and interesting, maybe soon it won't only be food recommendations on wine labels but also what music and what time of the day or light conditions are best!