There are all sorts of wine glasses on the market, with endless choice when looking into style, color and size. There are designer glasses and simple budget options to suit everyone. If you enjoy wine you should consider purchasing the right glass for your tastes that will satisfy you visually and suit your wine.
One of the more premium options for wine glasses is the Silhouette. This is quite expensive but it has a unique design which is ideal for those who are serious about their consumption of wine products. This glass helps to activate the senses through the entire drinking process, using a dipped cut in on one side of the glass, allowing for the nose to get close to the wine and also to continue taking in aromas as you drink.
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Today there are more and more styles coming into mainstream use like the stem less glass. This style is much better suited to red wines that can handle your hand touching the glass where the wine is stored and is in an ideal environment with a larger, more open glass. They are very stylish and come in a range of designs including those with colored glass.
Colored glass in general has made a comeback in recent years. In wine glasses you see that generally the color is kept in the stem and this allows for proper consideration to be paid to the wine itself without sacrificing style. They are available in flutes as well as in red and white wine glasses.
Champagne flutes are designed to maximize the bubbles in sparkling wines and are suitable to most sparkling varieties. They are tall and elegant although at times may seem difficult to drink out of they definitely do the wine justice. Because sparkling wine is served chilled, the stem is long so that you do not ever warm up the wine inside, which will both flatten and alter the taste.
The classic white wine glass is smaller than the red with a longer stem for many of the same reasons as the flutes above. Whites are served chilled and you want to protect this coolness for as long as possible or the taste may become unsavory.
Red wine glasses are wider and allow the wine to breathe. Reds should have exposure to air and sit for a while before serving. Being able to continue this process in the glass means you won't stifle the effect of having let it breathe.
Wine glasses are a great wedding gift, as well as being ideal for the bridal table. You can easily have wine glasses engraved with a message or title and this has become quite common in table decorations in recent years. Often the bridal party will receive an engraved glass with the date and names of the occasion.
There are hundreds of options beyond what is discussed here for wine glasses. Head online to see some of the more innovative designs available today, and discover there is more to wine glasses than red, white and sparkling.