khawkins04 / flickr

If you've been wondering why your nightly glass of wine tastes a bit hard or dark lately, perhaps it's due to your recent obsession with the early works of Ozzy Osbourne. A recent study shows that it's not just food that affects how we perceive wine — music does as well.

More from Delish: The Essential Wine Guide

The study, published this month in the British Journal of Psychology, took 250 subjects, both male and female, and divided them into five groups. The members of each group were given a glass of either a red or a white wine. While each group drank a different song was played in the background. The first group heard Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana"; the second, "Waltz of the Flowers" from Piot Ilich Tchaikovky's "Nutcracker"; the third, Nouvelle Vague's "Just Can't Get Enough"; and the fourth, "Slow Breakdown" by Michael Brook. The fifth group acted as the control group and drank in silence.

More from Delish: Your Wine Questions Answered

When they were finished, each person was charged with selecting terms and phrases from a list of descriptions to describe the wine. The Telegraph reports that researchers had assigned each description to one of the songs. For example, "Just Can't Get Enough" was described as "zingy and refreshing." The results found that a majority of the subjects unknowingly identified their wine as having the characteristics of the music they heard.

More from Delish: Perfect Wine and Food Pairings

Professor Adrian North, the study's lead researcher, told

the BBC that the research could make way for wine makers to "recommend that while drinking a certain wine, you should listen to a certain sort of music." Our suggestion? Put the Björk on the back burner and break out the Bach. Your Sangiovese will start tasting much mellower.

This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io