Does wine taste better when you have it out of a bigger glass? The answer to
my mind depends. If the wine is good, a giant glass will make it better - most
of the time. I do not believe you have to always get wrapped up in what is a
Bordeaux glass especially and the like but a pleasant big well crafted Stem
made for a Cabernet or other full bodied wine can actually deliver. Deliver
what? Enormous smells that are released less complicated when drinking from a
larger stem and that may give you more palate pleasure.
Younger Bolder Red Wines
If there's one type or style of wine that benefits from a pleasant size glass,
it is brash young reds that have great body and aroma, but perhaps are also
young and need the extra space in a gigantic glass to stretch out and air -
almost like a mini decanter. Even if you're someone that does not sit and smell
a wine for five minutes before drinking it ( ahem...that's me incidentally ),
the smell of a wine will effect the taste and your full capturing of the
flavor. It just does. Try a good full body wine and pour it in to a little
glass, you know the kind you will get at a pizza restaurant or something and
pour some into a nice size Cabernet Bordeaux glass. The wine will open up
faster, give off stronger smell and taste much better. Why not drink your best
wines in stemware that gives you the best method of enjoyment?
Lighter Bodied Reds and Whites
I enjoy good wines with good sized glasses at low pours. That is's just me and
there are no rules. I do not even drink fizz out of flutes. I use white wine
glasses. I like an enormous bowl, love to swirl and sniff so lighter bodied
reds like Chianti, Classic Style Pinot Noirs, Malbecs and others work fine for
me in bigger stemware. Full bodied Chardonnays can be huge and bold with a
massive red style wine glass as well .
Not all wines benefit from more lifelike estate in the stem for me. Older wines
that are past their top and cheaper everyday bottles will only fade out faster
or merely taste worse than they'd out of a little glass with a high pour!
You can drink your wine from beautifull crystal colored wine glasses to
bring that extra stylish atmosphere in your own livingroom. You can find
different color glasses like black stem wine
glasses and pink colored wine
glasses
These are mainly preferences by yours actually and certainly more opinion than
fact. There's very small about wine enjoyment that's totally based on fact.
Still, do yourself a favor and drink your best wines out of a pleasant big
glass and get your full head in there!
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