| td> | | | | nose, greatly enhancing the wine’s flavor. |
| Alcohol, as a rule, is generally easy to serve. For | | | | Red Wine Glasses: Red wine glasses are slightly |
| beer, you simply hand someone a can or a bottle | | | | larger than white wine glasses, tipping the scales |
| and, if need be, a bottle opener. For hard alcohol, | | | | between ten and sixteen ounces. The bowl, more |
| you simply pour the spirits into a mixer, add in a | | | | fish bowl like, is larger and rounder, but, like the |
| straw, or perhaps a mini umbrella, and send them | | | | white wine glass, it is also tapered inward. This |
| on their way. For shooters, you place the alcohol | | | | also directs the aroma of the red wine to the |
| in a shot glass, and, depending on what the | | | | nose, allowing the drinker to use a common |
| person is drinking, give them something to deflate | | | | sense, the sense of smell, to make their wine |
| the alcohol’s flavor: a lime, a lemon, a | | | | tasting experience much more flavorful. |
| stomach pump. | | | | Generalities |
| While wine is a type of alcohol, it refutes this | | | | Overall, wine glasses should be clear, allowing the |
| easy to serve concept. It’s not | | | | drinker to visually see what they are drinking. |
| horribly difficult to serve, but when compared to | | | | They should also be made of thinly cut glass and |
| other forms of alcohol, its proper service requires | | | | tapered at the top. As a general rule of thumb, a |
| a little more know how, a know-how that is | | | | thinner glass is better than a larger one, not |
| facilitated by an understanding of the different | | | | because of society’s preconceived notions, |
| types of wine glasses. | | | | but because thinner glasses keep air out easier |
| Three Main Wine Glasses | | | | than larger ones. Though being made of crystal is |
| Although wine glasses can come in many varieties | | | | not mandatory, crystal wine glasses do tend to |
| — with different sizes and shapes | | | | enhance the essence of wine to a greater degree. |
| abounding — there are three general wine | | | | Filling the Glass |
| glass categories aimed at encompassing the most | | | | Some people my have different suggestions |
| common types of wine. | | | | when it comes to filling their wine glass. While |
| Sparking Wine Flutes: Sparkling wine flutes are tall | | | | some may want the wine to be level with the |
| and thin, like a wine glass that works out. They | | | | wine glass’s rim, others may prefer just a |
| are used to hold all kinds of sparkling wine, | | | | taste and some, forgoing the wine glass |
| including champagne. Because sparkling wines | | | | altogether, may simply open their mouths wide |
| contain carbonation, flutes are designed to | | | | and ask you to start pouring. Personal |
| encourage carbonated bubbles to remain active. If | | | | preferences aside, the proper way to fill a wine |
| this type of wine is served in a shorter, fatter | | | | glass is to fill it about half way — and only |
| wine glass, it will be exposed to air quickly, causing | | | | a third of the way for white wine — in |
| the drink to go flat, and bursting the wine’s | | | | order to give the wine drinker a chance to move |
| bubble in more than one way. | | | | the wine glass around and catch the wine’s |
| White Wine Glasses: White wine glasses are tulip | | | | aromas. Filling a wine glass with too much wine |
| shaped. They are typically medium in size, ranging | | | | can result in taking the wine drinkers ability to |
| from eight to fourteen ounces. The rim of white | | | | swirl away, or leave them with a shirt tie-dyed in |
| wine glasses is tapered inward. This inwardness | | | | Cabernet. |
| helps direct the white wine’s aroma to the | | | | |