Choosing the right wine glasses really does matter. Even a slight change in the design of wine glasses can greatly affect your wine experience.
But how can a glass affect the taste? The design and shape of wine glasses affect the amount of air coming into contact with your wine, the quantity of aroma released, and the point where the wine hits your tongue. All of these things have a huge impact on the flavour of wine you taste.
Different wine glasses are designed to improve various aspects of wines. While selecting wine glasses according to your taste, it is recommended first to consider the bowl shape, next match the bowl with the particular type of wine, then consider your stem options, and finally, the thickness of the rim.
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Remember that all of the guidelines regarding associating the right wine glasses with wines are simply guidelines, and the best glass for a specific wine is the one in which you find the best taste of wine. If you don’t like the taste of some wine, before blaming the wine, try it in a different wine glass.
With a few details about the advantages of various wine glasses with different shapes, you will know that there are some aromas and flavours you have been missing because of lacking the right wine glasses. You may develop an increasing obligation to select the right wine glasses to find the best wine taste.
Here at Glassjacks, you will find a fantastic collection of glassware and wine glasses to choose from.
Just like other alcoholic beverages, wine releases ethanol vapours when poured into the glass. These vapours have aromatic compounds responsible for each wine’s specific aroma.
An even more important phenomenon occurs when these vapours come into contact with air or oxygen. When oxygen hits the ethanol vapours, it enhances the release of aromatic compounds in the wine. You can then sit back, inhale and enjoy the aromas from the wine. More aroma means more flavour, so you will taste more when you are able to smell more.
The width of the bowl of a wine glass affects the surface area of wine exposed to air. It also greatly impacts the amount of wine’s aroma reaching your nose. If the bowl is narrow, less wine will have contact with air, and less area will be available to release the aroma.
For red wines, it is good to select the right wine glasses with a wide bowl to enable their high bolder flavours and aromas to release. Wide bowl wine glasses allow the greater aroma to reach your nose and help more air come in contact with wine as you drink, thus releasing more flavour.
As many white wines have delicate aromas and flavour, a narrow wine glass can help these soft aromas reach directly to your nose. Due to the narrow bowl of the right wine glass, less surface area of wine will have contact with air and helps retain the white wines’ chill.
Everyone loves the little bubbles in sparkling wine, but it is likely to lose its carbonation when you pour it out of the bottle, and it gets exposed to the air. That is why a tall narrow fluted bowl is the right wine glass to maintain the effervescence for as much time as possible and to best preserve its beautiful tiny bubbles.
When it comes to selecting a stemless versus stemmed glass, it greatly depends on personal preferences. When a stemless glass is used for drinking, you are holding the bowl with your hand, which can increase the temperature of the wine. Due to this, a stemless glass is unlikely to be the right wine glass for drinking white wine. However, it all depends on you what you prefer for your particular wine experience.
The thickness of the rim of wine glasses affects the way wine moves onto your tongue when you are drinking and therefore affect the wine’s taste. A rim with a very thin cut and no lip lets the wine flow smoothly onto your tongue. Thicker rims prohibit the smooth flow of wine onto your tongue and enhance harshness and acidity in the wine.
When you have chosen the right wine glass and poured your favourite wine, it’s time to enjoy the best part, drinking it! If you don’t like the taste of any wine, try to taste it in a different glass, which might change how you experience the wine’s flavour.
If you are not in the mood to go into the process of finding the right wine glasses for your wine, you can choose universal wine glasses that are sized somewhere between a smaller red glass and a Chardonnay. Universal wine glasses are the most adaptable choices for enjoying all kinds of wines.
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