Great Fine Wine

The right glassware is an integral part of the wine appreciation. It’s true that you can get wine in cans or cardboard cartons and there may come a time when we drink wine through straws.  Hopefully that day is a very long way off, because that would ruin many excellent wines and put the corkscrew manufacturers out of business!

Good glassware (not necessarily expensive glasses)   is central to the enjoyment of a good wine.In fact, very expensive glassware is often not a sensible choice as the designs tend to have long stems and a high centre of gravity.A glass filled with wine is inherently unstable and there can’t be anyone who drinks wine who hasn’t tipped over the occasional glass at some time.Wine glasses will break and there’s nothing you can do about that, aside from buying glasses that are fairly sturdy and reasonably priced.

A good wine glass is basically quite simple – ideally it should be made of glass and no other material. It should be perfectly clear with no tints or opaque colours because apart from just holding the wine, glassware should also display it. The true deep colour of a wine can be a beautiful sight in a clear, clean glass just as a range of bottles can be impressive in a well constructed wine rack.A glass should also enhance and preserve the wine’s bouquet. Good wine glasses, no matter what price, are narrower at the top than at the bottom to concentrate the aromas of the wine. Experienced wine drinkers swirl the wine in the glass before taking the first sip to release more of its bouquet.

So if you plan to buy wine-related gifts this Christmas, any decent collection of wine glasses will do the trick. The only truly unacceptable wine glass is the saucer-like champagne glass – which is guaranteed to warm the wine and make it flat in record time. It is perfect for a shrimp cocktail starter, but otherwise for champagne and sparkling wines use a flute.

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