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Choose wider, bowl-shaped glasses for red wines. With the bolder bouquets of red wines, you will want a wider “mouth” in your wine glass to enable you to capture all the aromas the red wine has to offer.
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Use glasses with as wide a bowl as possible for aged red wines to capture their complex aromas. Red wines that are not aged should still be served in large wine glasses, but the opening can be somewhat narrower.
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Serve wine accompanying a dinner in large glasses. This ensures that you and your guests will have enough wine in your glasses to enjoy throughout the meal.
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Use wine glasses with a very narrow mouth for young or light white wines. The bouquet of this type of wine is likely to be subtle, so you want to concentrate the aroma in a narrower passage for your enjoyment.
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Serve wood-aged white wines in slightly wider-mouthed wine glasses (but still on the narrow side). Again, you will want to concentrate the bouquet as much as possible.
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Champagne should be served in proper tulip-shaped champagne flutes. This allows for maximum concentration of champagne’s delicate bouquet. It also adds to the unmistakable visual appeal of champagne to see the bubbles rising to the top in a long and slender flute.
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Serve brandy in a traditional brandy snifter. The large bowl combined with the short stem allows the drinker to cup the bowl of the wine glass in his or her hand. This action allows the heat of the hand to gently warm the brandy and bring out the aroma in the drink.
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Serve sweet sparkling wines in what is known as a "cup." These broad, shallow glasses are often mistaken for proper champagne glasses but are really better suited to the aromatic flavors of sweet sparkling wines.
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Serve port or cognac in slender glasses. Depending on what you have available, a narrow white-wine glass or champagne flute will work nicely.
Comments
tinaglenn6 said
on 4/19/2009 Nice article on choosing proper wine glasses