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Wine Glasses Glasses Clear and thin wine glasses allow for the visual impact of a wine’s good looks; a lot can be learnt about wine from its appearance, clues as to the grape used and its age. There are a multitude of glasses to choose from but perhaps the following will give an insight into which ones to look for and then let the depth of your purse or wallet guide the final choice. Ideally a wine glass is:
Clear so that you can see the wine’s colour Thin to get as close to the wine as possible
Stemmed so you are not transferring heat from your hand to the bowl and avoiding greasy finger prints It is also preferable that the bowl tapers slightly inwards at the top, this avoids too much contact with the air and makes ‘swirling’ a little less hazardous. There is little or no reason why we should use different size glasses for red and white wine (other than for the sweet desert wines which generally are taken in smaller quantities). Make sure the bowl is large enough to pour a decent amount in whilst leaving plenty of room for movement. Tumblers are occasionally used by restaurants aspiring to be ‘traditional’ and unpretentious; these do nothing for the wine and nothing to add to the pleasure of drinking wine. The cheap and cheerful ‘ Paris goblet’ is going out of fashion, and about time too: it does have a stem and goes in towards the rim but it has no finesse and adds nothing. Chunky lead crystal wine glasses look good in a cabinet, and that is where they should stay. Again, they are far too thick for the drinker to get close to the wine and very often the shape is completely wrong splaying outwards at the rim. There are some exceptions to the ‘rules’ noted above and these primarily relate to sherry and champagne glasses.
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