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article 2.4.0 Does the shape of your wine glass really matter?
CNA Luxury participated in a wine glass comparison of Riedel’s latest grape varietal-specific glasses to see how your favourite wine can taste different in a glass of another shape. And oh, we threw a cheap wine glass into the mix to see how it fared among its expensive brethren.
After each set, I ranked the glasses according to their performance. Here are the results.
We were presented with four varietal-specific glasses from the Veloce range: Riesling, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir/Nebbiolo, and Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot. The session was divided into three sets, each featuring a wine that we poured into three of the four varietal-specific glasses. Unlike the other participants, I had four glasses up for comparison in each set as I included my Glass X, which resembled the Riesling glass.
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Wine educators like to explain
how our tastebuds work by
breaking down our tongue into
zones of umami, acidic, bitter, sweet,
and salty; the sides of our tongue are sensitive to acid. Although this classic model has since been disproved by many scientists,
the Riedel glasses’ way of changing how a
wine interacts with our palate shows that the tongue map may still be quite relevant.
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Pinot Noir is a wine that invites you to sniff deeply like a perfumer, and the inward curve of the Pinot Noir glass certainly helped this act by concentrating the wine’s aromas around the rim. Riedel again noted that the shape encourages you to tilt your glass back, bringing the wine to the tip of the tongue, and balancing Pinot Noir’s high acidity with its red fruit notes. “The Pinot Noir glass is what we call a ‘thin skin red fruit glass’ for a red wine with low tannins,” he said.
