Wine and Magnets

I crossed my legs while playing that one

Some of you are just not taking this seriously enough.

I personally always make sure there is a very large magnet under every glass of wine I serve. The gravity from this large magnet also helps to keep the wine in both decanter and glass until tipped over the lips, and round the tongue, though the tonsils and past the lungs.

I understand the best place to appreciate the effect of this large magnet on your wine is in the far north of Canada near one of its poles.

Which may explain why I don't like every wine I drink. I live nearly as far from Canada as you can, and not close enough to the other pole to get full effect.

cheers greybeard

I'm sure this magic wine magnet has every bit as much research as the magical wine storing temperature of 55 F...ZERO!

Thanks for the article, Martin "Magnetic" Field

There *is* money made out of it. There are quite a few magnetic/other gadgets around.

M.

While serving wine to my friends, I always wave my magic wand while skipping counter-clockwise exactly five times while chanting " Owa Tajer Kiam!". It works wonders!

Well, Musigny is often described as tasting of iron filings. Do you think I should place my '85 Comte de Vogue into a 4 T electromagnet? :p

Anxiously awaiting your reply, Mark Lipton

Sean, I agree with you that there is nothing magical about 55 F as a storage temp (and as our Euro contributors point out, 55 F is far from a Universal choice), but there is at least a scientific basis for understanding the effects of temperature on wine aging, whereas there is

Mark Lipton

I would be interested in running a controlled experiment on the wine magnet and give a report to the group, but I'm not willing to shell out the $50US to purchase the thing. Any chance that the manufacturer would be willing to send me a loaner to run this experiment?

Sean

I'll buy the wine magnet to do the experiment, because I think it's very important to have lots of empirical data. Can we get some wineries to donate some wine? I expect the results to be very subtle, so I'd need their finest wines to do the testing, of course. :)

Jose

Oh you're good!

An once you have decided that the magnet makes no difference, the next hypothesis to test is that it depends on the phase of the moon, so you will need fresh supplies of the fine wine every week for at least a month.

--brian

On the other hand, I've heard that putting a COD in with a bottle of wine can have some pretty interesting results, especially if the bottle is open. Or maybe that's just in Newfoundland.

Har! 'ave ye ever been to sea Commander? :-)

Myron

BTW; have a safe trip to Scottsdale :-)

Thanks Myron. Actually I'm just back from a nice warm week in Tampa -Merlot with my steak, and a Cuban cigar by the pool; still in shirtsleeves at 23:00. (it was one of those 'too much Merlot' evenings, but that's a story for another time) This week I'm off to Buffalo, where it's certainly not going to be outdoor smoking weather. Do you know a wine that goes well with Buffalo Wings?

Next up is Nashville, where I've yet to discover a good cigar store, but they always have a good selection of fine wine to have with dinner.

Scottsdale will be sometime later in Feb I expect.