08/25/08 Wine Glasses

Welcome to Vine to Wine this is your host Linda Moran. Recently I hosted a dinner party which was the result of an auction lot I donated to a charity. Six courses and sixty-four wine glasses later - It prompted one guest to ask the age old question "Does the choice of wine glass really make a difference?" The relationship between wine and glass has caused many people fits. It is just a glass, what's the big deal? Well if you ever really explored it, you would find that one wine glass may seem just as good as another, but that simply isn't the case. Although I can't prove it to you on the radio, I will give you a little test that you can do yourself. First get three different kinds of glasses; one that is known to be a white wine glass, next a red wine glass and make the third glass a water tumbler. Take a nice bottle of red wine and measure the same amount of wine into the different glasses. The tumbler should be deeper and have less wine exposed on the surface area. The red wine glass should appear to be the shallowest pour because the glass is wider and more wine is exposed to the air. The white wine glass will be in between. Now, swirl the wine around a few times in it's glass and smell it, but don't drink it, just note which one gives you the most fragrance. After smelling them, taste through the wines and see if they taste different from one another, notice if one smells and tastes most flavorful. Now contact me, linda at vine to wine dot net, and let me know what you found out. I am willing to bet you notice a difference. And thanks for joining me on today's Vine to Wine.