Different shapes of wine glasses, how to choose?
In pursuit of the perfect tasting of wine, professionals have designed the most suitable glass for almost every wine. When you drink what kind of wine, what kind of glass you choose will not only affect the taste, but also show your taste and understanding of wine. Today, let’s step into the world of wine glasses.
Bordeaux Cup
This tulip-shaped goblet is arguably the most common wine glass, and most wine glasses are made in the style of Bordeaux wine glasses. As the name suggests, this wine glass is designed to better balance the sourness and heavier astringency of Bordeaux red wine, so it has a longer glass body and a non-vertical glass wall, and the curvature of the glass wall can better control the dry red evenly. Harmonious taste.
Just like when you don’t know what wine to choose, it’s always a good idea to choose Bordeaux wine. If you are destined to have only one glass to use because of conditions, then the safest choice is a Bordeaux wine glass. The same is the Bordeaux glass, if they are big and small at the table, then generally speaking, the large Bordeaux glass is used for red wine, and the smaller one is used for white wine.
Champagne Flute
All sparkling wines used to call themselves champagne, so this glass suitable for sparkling wine has this name, but this is not just for champagne, but suitable for all sparkling wines, because of their slender body , has been endowed with many feminine connotations.
The more streamlined narrow and long cup body not only makes the release of bubbles easier, but also makes it more aesthetically pleasing. In order to increase stability, it has a larger bottom bracket. The narrow mouth is ideal for slow sipping of champagne’s pleasing variety of aromas, while minimising the loss of spring-filled aromas.
However, if you are participating in a top champagne tasting, then the organizers will basically not provide you with champagne glasses, but larger white wine glasses. At this point, don’t be surprised, because this is to better release the complex aromas of the champagne, even at the expense of appreciating its rich little bubbles.
Brandy Cup (Cognac)
This wine glass has an aristocratic atmosphere by nature. The mouth of the cup is not large, and the actual capacity of the cup can reach 240~300 ml, but the actual capacity used in actual use is only 30 ml. The wine glass is placed sideways, and it is appropriate if the wine in the glass does not spill out.
The plump and round cup body has the responsibility to retain the aroma of the nectarine in the cup. The correct way to hold the cup is to hold the cup on the hand naturally with fingers, so that the temperature of the hand can warm the wine slightly through the cup body, thereby promoting The aroma of wine.
Burgundy Cup
In order to better taste the strong fruity taste of Burgundy red wine, people have designed this kind of goblet that is closer to a spherical shape. It is shorter than the Bordeaux wine glass, the mouth of the glass is smaller, and the flow in the mouth is larger. The spherical cup body can easily let the wine flow to the middle of the tongue and then to the four directions, so that the fruity and sour flavors can be integrated with each other, and the narrowed cup can better condense the wine aroma.
Champagne Saucer
Champagne towers at weddings and many festive celebrations are built with such glasses. The lines are tough and the glass is in the shape of a triangle. Although it can also be used to build a champagne tower, it is more used for cocktails and snack containers, so many people mistakenly call it a cocktail glass. The method should be a North American-style saucer champagne glass.
When the champagne tower appears, people pay more attention to the atmosphere of the scene rather than the wine, and the cup shape that is not conducive to retaining the aroma is also not good for high-end sparkling wine, so this kind of cup is used to bring fresh, A lively, simple and fruity regular sparkling wine will suffice.
Dessert Wine Glass
When tasting sweeter after-dinner wines, use this kind of short-shaped wine glass with a short handle at the bottom. When drinking liqueur and dessert wine, this kind of glass with a capacity of about 50 ml is used. This type of glass also has There are various names, such as Porter Cup, Shirley Cup, and some people call the straight opening of the cup as Pony because of the short stature of this cup.
The slightly everted lip allows the tip of the tongue to be the vanguard of taste, better enjoying the fruit and sweetness of the wine, as you indulge in some tawny Reserve Port with toasted almonds that stand out against a touch of orange zest and spiciness When incense, you will understand how important the details of this design are.
However, although there are so many complex cups, there are only three basic cups – for red wine, white wine and sparkling wine.
If you attend a formal dinner and find that there are 3 wine glasses in front of you after you are seated at the table, you can easily distinguish them by remembering a formula, that is – red, big, white and small bubbles.
And if you only have a limited budget to buy one kind of cup, then the first cup mentioned in the article – the Bordeaux cup will be a more versatile choice.
The last thing I want to say is that some cups are often designed with patterns or colors for aesthetics. However, this kind of wine glass is not recommended from the point of view of wine tasting, because it will affect the observation. The color of the wine itself. So, if you want to show your professionalism, please use a crystal clear glass.