Gothamist: Astrology Meets Winemaking

Joe

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:42:58 -0500

As Carl Sagan famously said "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". Stars other than our Sun are too far from us to do anything to life on Earth other than make the night sky look pretty. Light from the full moon is a thousandth of a percent that from the sun. Lunar tides may make the oceans rise and fall but they won't do diddly to plants or the water/nutrients therein. These winemakers obviously care a lot about the wine they make. That caring, and requisite hard work, is what makes their wine good, not astrological b.s.

mgg

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:48:03 -0500

Although I don't really take the whole system to make sense, certain aspects of it probably do fit into what we know about the growth of plants. I'm pretty sure that its been shown that the moon's cycle has a direct affect on them: its better to plant during certain phases and plants grow faster at other times (I'm not really sure of the details). I think similar things could be said about the sun's affect, although it would be over a longer period of time. Don't know about that stars thing though.

adamks

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:07:40 -0500

check your commas, spelling errors, and homonym errors ("their"?).

anon

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:12:02 -0500

Hello, nice article. It's not being pedantic i hope, but "terroir" is the way to spell that.