Love it or think it’s ridiculous, astrology has increasingly worked its way into popular culture and the general psyche.
Major magazines, from Cosmopolitan and Elle to Vogue and GQ, regularly cover the topic, publishing horoscopes and articles about how the planets are impacting various aspects of life. Social media is full of astrological influencers. Artists, like Kacey Musgraves, SZA and Arianna Grande, have sung about Saturn and its return in their music.
And, according to one survey of 2,000 young Americans by academic and writing EduBirdie, around 80% of all Gen Z and millennials believe in astrology—a size worthy portion of whom use the practice to make career and other major life decisions.
This got us wondering: Should we be looking to the stars when picking a wine, too?
Wine Enthusiast Writer-at-Large Tonya Pitts thinks so.
“I am a firm believer that everything is connected and people gravitate to people, places and things that spark something inside them; it could be joy, passion, intrigue or memories from the past,” she says. “There are those that say it has nothing to do with anything, but I like to think it’s all in the stars and planetary alignments.”
To help guide the various zodiac signs toward specific wine that may resonate with their various attributes, Pitts took into account the general profile of grape varietals and along with regional profiles. Then, sought out bottles that evoke emotion and translate into traits of behaviors of the signs, essentially thinking if a varietal were a
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