Wine Glasses -- Which Goes With Which Wine?

By Sharon Stajda,

The wine revolution is doing more than just changing how, and where wine is grown, and produced. It is also changing the way we chose to serve wine. Wine can be savored, in a Dixie cup as well as a beautiful cut glass wine glass.
But - Wine glassware just seems to set the mood better than a Dixie Cup? The proper wine glass can also provide the wine with the right conditions to "open up" as to say.
Manufactures that make wine glasses take the art of glass making to the highest level of craftsmanship. Making sure to constructing glasses that are designed to bring-out the best tastes in certain grape varieties. A good example of this, a glass that is crafted specifically for a sweet wine like a Sauternes. The rim will curve in just the right way to direct the wine to the sides of the tongue first, where one will be able to taste the acidity in a given wine. This curve in the glass serves to help balance the forward sweetness of sweet wine.
As a rule hearty full bodied Red wines will be better served in a large bulbous wine glass. This type of glass serves to let wine breath a bit, and give an open cavern for the wine aroma to be enjoyed.
In the Italian country side, wine may be sipped from small cups or small drinking glasses. This may be partly due to the fact that the glass or cup is sturdy, and will endure the numerous rounds of toasts, and glass-banging that can occur over the course of a single spirited meal. It also may be due to the fresh Italian wines are consumed with each meal, and are wines that are not long aged, so need not be served in a larger wine glass. They are fresh and light, and do not require much breathing room...
Champagne glasses are narrow, and tall. This let one see the bubbles stream from bottom up. Remember small streaming bubbles indicate a good Champagne.

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