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Should You Buy Special Glasses To Serve Wine?
by Fairfax Tolman
http://www.ftwine.com

You've probably heard that the glass in which you serve a
wine can enhance its flavor. According to the experts at
Riedel Glass in Austria, the glass in which you serve a wine
can certainly enhance its enjoyment. The shape and
composition of every Reidel glass is specifically designed
to present a particular varietal wine at its best. The
Austrian family has been designing wine glasses since the
1950s, though they've been in the glass business since the
1700s.

While most experts agree that there is an glass shape for
serving fine wines, the camps are split on whether its
important to break down the shapes further into glasses for
serving white wines, red wines and further to those designed
specifically for particular varietals.

According the Riedel, the shape of the glass influences the
way that the vapors of natural evaporation are held in the
glass, and presented to the nose. It also subtly directs the
way that the wine is sipped and the area of the tongue or
mouth where the wine is first tasted. For nearly fifty
years, they have been developing glasses shaped specifically
to enhance every kind of wine, from Sauvignon to Chablis.

Does it really make a difference? Riedel cites as evidence
that it does experiments carried out at their wine-tasting
labs, where renowned wine experts were served the same wine
in a variety of glasses and asked to rate and identify the
wine. In most cases, the oenophiles were convinced that
they'd been served completely different varieties of wine.

Riedel makes the following recommendations and offers the
following information on various aspects of serving wine and
the shape of the glasses that best fit different varieties
of wine:

As a very broad example, the company explains how when a
person takes a sip of wine from a glass with a broad mouth
he will naturally lower his head, tilting it forward. This
affects how the wine is taken into the mouth and the area of
the tongue where it first touches. By contrast, a glass with
a narrow mouth forces the person to lift their head and tilt
it back, thereby influencing the way that the wine is
smelled and tasted.

The best material for serving wine is lead crystal. Among
their other suggestions for the ideal wine glass are that it
should be colorless, transparent, have thin walls, be egg-
shapped with a wider base than rim, have a cut and polished
rim and have a stem so that the hand doesn't warm the
contents of the bowl.

White wines can be served in the same glass, though the more
delicate aroma and bouquet will benefit from a more narrow
shape and a slower taper to the mouth so that the vapors
aren't overwhelmed or lost.

White wines should be served in taller, narrower glasses to
enhance their more delicate bouquet. Sparkling wines like
champagne should be served in tall, narrow flutes to
preserve their effervescence. The less surface area of the
wine exposed to air, the less of the bubbly you lose.

If you can only afford one glass, Riedel experts say, make
it a bordeaux or chablis glass, which are nearly identical
and have all the characteristics that are important in a
wine glass. Just be sure that when pouring, you only fill
the glass about one third the way to allow the wine room to
breathe.

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