There are many kinds of wine glasses, and the style and quality of wine glasses are also different. There are some crystal cups with excellent workmanship and high price, which are specially designed to drink specific wine. This paper will select some of them for introduction. The point of this article is not to persuade you to invest a lot of money in the selection of wine glasses, but as long as you have purchased wine glasses and have a certain understanding of wine glasses, you must know “goblets”. There are some simple rules to pay attention to in the selection of goblets; So, what should we pay attention to when choosing? What are the options? Next, Xiaobian will tell you how to choose a wine glass, hoping to help you.
Rule 1: the wine glass must be smooth and transparent
When choosing a wine cup, the first thing to pay attention to is the material for making the wine cup. At least, the wine glass must be smooth and bright.
When tasting wine, observing the color of wine is also part of the enjoyment process. The color of the wine can also reflect the quality of the wine to a certain extent, such as the type of grapes selected for brewing the wine, the year of the wine and other similar information. Accordingly, the effect of wine glasses made of other colored or frosted glass is greatly reduced, while those made of metal materials such as tin and silver are even worse. I personally think that the cutting of the glass for making wine glasses will have a negative impact on the performance of wine, but this is only my personal point of view. At the same time, the feeling of wine tasting is also closely related to the size and shape of the selected cup (usually the wine cup is too small). If the shape and size of the cup are inappropriate, it is extremely inappropriate to choose it for wine tasting.
Rule 2: the size of the wine cup can meet the needs
Secondly, when choosing a wine glass, please confirm that the size of the wine glass you choose can meet your needs. First of all, the wine cup you choose should be able to hold enough wine. On the premise of ensuring this, the wine cup should have enough space to allow you to gently shake the wine cup without spilling the wine out of the glass. The action of shaking liquor can release the fragrance contained in the wine, so this action is also very important for wine tasting. Many wine glasses are too small, so in order to ensure an adequate drinking volume, the liquor even needs to be filled to the edge of the wine cup, so this situation can not meet the demand of wine tasting.
Rule 3: there must be a cup stem
The wine cup must have a cup stem. The existence of the cup stem is not only for the needs of art, but also to ensure that fingers do not touch the cup belly, so as to ensure that fingerprints are not left on the wine cup. The existence of cup stem also ensures that the palm does not touch the cup belly, resulting in the increase of liquor temperature, which is particularly important for some wines that need to be drunk under cooling conditions, although I have not found that this problem has a practical impact on me in practical use. If you carefully observe the wine tasting process of a famous wine taster, you will find that his hands rarely touch the belly of the cup in the whole process, and even if they do, they will quickly transfer to holding the stem or seat of the cup.
Rule 4: the shape of the wine glass is very important
Therefore, when choosing our own wine glass, we need to choose a wine glass made of transparent glass material, with a cup stem and appropriate volume. If you want to ask, are there any other important details to consider when choosing a wine glass? Of course, the shape of the wine glass is quite worthy of attention.
A good wine glass is conical in the upper part of the glass, so the mouth is often narrower than the lower part of the glass. First of all, this kind of modeling is very artistic and aesthetic. Secondly, this design is also very effective in practical use. A wine taster usually shakes the liquor to release the precious aroma contained in the liquor, and this conical design can make the aroma released from the liquor more concentrated at the mouth of the cup, so as to make the aroma smell stronger. This design is particularly important when tasting Pinot Noir, because when tasting Pinot Noir, tasting the aroma of this wine is an important link.
