Every Wine Glass Explained By A Sommelier | World of Wine | Bon Appétit
hey i'm somoe andre mac and today i'm going to tell you about a whole bunch of different wine glasses wine glasses change your perception and how you experience drinking wine and there's certain things that that glass should have to lend to a great wine drinking experience [Music] there are some really cool reasons behind why these glasses were designed the way they were we're going to start with the burgundy glass most classes wine glasses will have four key components you have the lip you have the bowl you have the stem and then you have the base the most striking feature of the burgundy glasses is kind of balloon shape the purpose of the large bowl is to capture the aromatics so you have something that's very aromatic something like pinot noir that's poured in this class and as you swirl the vapors get trapped because it's kind of got this cone shape here you want to hold it by the stem so you don't alter the temperature of the wine you see in the movies where people grab it like this or they swirl like this it seems all awkward generally we say it's called stimwear for a reason use it you want to have a really thin lip here so it's not bulky so it kind of like just pours smoothly over your palate when you have something really bulky you feel that transition i know that seems crazy and very small but the thinner the rim the better the delivery for all the wines are due to its shape it feels like it's at a triangle so it pours into one point of my mouth and then kind of spreads back to the either side of my mouth sides of my tongue start to tingle um pinot noir is a high acid grape so i really get to experience the delivery i think is is one of the great things about it along with being able to admire the aromatics i love this class i drink tons of different wines out of it i make margaritas out of it margaritas out of this class are the best it's a multi-purpose glass in my home because we do drink a lot of burgundy and pinot noir this is the glass that we tend to leach in this is a bordeaux glass slash cabernet glass the wines from bordeaux tend to land heavy on cabernet sauvignon the shape of this glass is interesting it just looks like an oversized wine glass it kind of looks like it got stung with a b you know it's got like it's got an allergic reaction to it so this has a little bit more narrow bowl than considering the burgundy glass generally speaking cabernet needs a lot more air so you won't have the lips of the glass curving in the trap aromatics cabernet and bordeaux are very tannic needs a lot of headroom a lot of breathing room here so you have lots of volume here to allow oxygen to help decant the wine and soften the wine always look at these as being somewhat of a mini decanter the delivery is definitely a little bit faster as soon as you tip the glass it starts to cover the palette from the front to the back this is has kind of a linear shape with a slight curvature to it delivers the wine pretty evenly uh on your palette i would recommend this glass to most people i think a lot of people are attracted to it because of the way it looks it's elegant from afar i always think that it's a great class especially if you're drinking reds so this looks like a chardonnay white wine glass it's short in stature it has a small bowl not a lot of head room here red wine needs lots of oxygen lots of air so you tend to find really huge bowls white wine a little bit more aromatic more acidity and so you want to have a smaller bowl so in size this is almost half the size of the previous class we have a little brown chardonnay from napa valley you know something interesting about this class like i would prefer to drink this wine out of the previous class it just seems like the delivery would feel a lot better this all comes all as like a rush all of a sudden it's all in your mouth and it doesn't feel like the right glass for this particular one in my opinion this looks like a dessert wine glass that you would serve poured out of or fortified wine out of people don't drink copious amounts of dessert wine generally it's on the sweet heavier side higher in alcohol so this is a smaller glass for that almost kind of the same shape as a typical wine glass a little bit more fluted to kind of catch the aromatics this is called white port um did you know it was such a thing standard glass pour of wine is five ounces but dessert wine pours about three ounces if i was a consumer going into a place and you poured me three ounces in a very large glass people would think that it's an underpoor i think the delivery kind of like shoots more into the the center of my palate like definitely where i accentuate sugar i don't know if it enhances the experience in that sense i like how it's proportioned other than that like if i'm at the dinner table and you pull out these glasses i know that we're moving on to something else of like oh my god like it's poured or sweet wine it's dessert it's saltern changing the shape and style kind of sets the tone as well onto probably the most famous shaped glass ever this is called the champagne fluke very narrow here as you can look in here maybe two inches wide to help facilitate the bubbles rising to the top because it is the most famous in stature i always think it's a great way to be able to dress up sparkling wine and so what i decided to do is pour a little bit of moscato to asti if you pour sparkling wine in a wide surface it's more surface to air ratio bubbles will disappear very quickly if you pour them in a very narrow glass they will continue to come up because they don't have as much room to expand and so this keeps the glass full of bubbles i love this class i think i love it less and less for actual champagne where you know champagne to me is also considered wine i think that it should be poured in a white wine glass the flu doesn't allow you to really evaluate a wine it doesn't allow for really kind of swirl can't really fit into the glass but for something like this this is this is fun and this is great and i think it's celebratory and it's a way to put you know 25 inch rims on your moscato dosti what we have here is considered the predecessor of the champagne flute this is called a coupe it's a short squatty glass pretty thick not a seamless rim legend has it that it is the shape of marie antoinette's breast i'll leave you with that this is a little floral cider looks beautiful in this class but you know there's all of the surface area to release bubbles you know so it's kind of like the complete opposite of a champagne flute it all kind of comes rushing to the top it doesn't allow you to swirl you know i mean you still can sniff it's kind of hard to maneuver too right you know but this reminds me of like you know getting a cocktail and you know the first thing you do you pick it up and you sip it like that the glass blends more to a cocktail sparkling wine that doesn't need to be evaluated and that's why i always think it's cool to pour something like this in it some real sparkling cider still fun and still serious next up this is the stimulus class it's kind of missing a couple of the parts that we talked about in glassware there's no stem there's no base this probably came around in the late 1990s early 2000s to encourage people to drink wine more casually and still have some of the elements so it still has the wide bowl you can still kind of swirl this way a little bit of rose these two things kind of came into prominence right around the same time good wine in a box glasses that aren't considered dainty or fragile because of the stem or the base and being able to enjoy those things at a picnic i feel like these two things are a match made in heaven you're picking it up by the sides like a traditional glass you're drinking a wine that's that you're knocking back right it's not this serious thing and i think this class is great i know a lot of people who hate this class and i don't hate on it it's bringing more people to the party the wine party that is and i'm grateful that so next up is actually a white wine glass i like to call it an all-purpose class it lends to a great drinking experience all across the board in my opinion it is definitely on the expensive side it's not a big giant bowl but it is pretty thin touching it you feel like you can break it with your mind so this is a blender cabernet and cabernet franc from the willamette valley glass is just lightweight elegant the experience is just different from the vessel that is poured in the delivery is just seamless the lip is absolutely razor thin and i think all wine can benefit from that it is tapered enough to kind of trap all of those aromatics that i want to capture from wines across the board if i had to choose one glass to drink every wine out of this would be the glass you can definitely find versions of glasses like this that cost less will they be exactly the same no but you don't need this particular glass to choose one glass you know what i mean like i think like to simplify your life if you have one glass that you enjoy drinking out of maybe that's the glass you should be drinking out of so do you need any of this glassware to elevate your experience i think only you get to decide that but these are some of the ones that are out here i definitely think that it's fun to dress up wine sometimes and put them in a glass that you really like to elevate your experience and in the end you can always take it straight to the head and go from the bottom tastes just as good [Music] you
