Glass tasting

[Ugly John]

I juts got back from a wonderfull experience.... a wine glass tasting.

Unlike a wine tasting where you are there to judge the wines, we were there to judge the glasses. well not wuite judge, but rather how to appreciate the right glass for the right wine.

i must say this WOW!!!!

I've gone to many many wine tasting, but this was my first glass tasting. The tasting was directed by Georg Riedel of Riedel glasses. 10th generation glass maker. I had the Vinum extreme series, some had the Vinum and some lucky bastards had the somelier series. In all we all had 6 glasses in front of us, we all had the same wine.

we switched our wine from glass to glass, and it was incredible, an excellent pinot noir would be so-so in a chardonnay glass. and that chardonnay would be tasteless in a "paris goblet" (regular wine glass).

But the best part was that we got to keep our glasses.... so i ended up with 4 glasses worth about 30$ each. But the lucky bastards who had the somelier series got 60$ a pop glasses.

I would recommend that tasting to anybody now. simply WOW!

 

[WarMonger]

wine is fine, but liqueur is quicker :p

 

[bob_the_rambler]

candy is dandy but liquor is quicker....

 

[John Uskglass]

My cat's breath smells like catfood.

 

[Ozrat]

You DO know that you can't drink the wine when wine tasting, right?

 

[Dove]

And you enjoyed the taste?

Damn, glass tastes kinda funny to me...


Kinda like bits of bloody crunchies...

 

[Elissar]

I was never a big fan of the taste of glass either.... i found it bland, no matter what i seasoned it with... and the texture just plain sucked.

 

[SuAside]

thanks for the wonderful contributions to this thread uptil now people. you guys really don't grasp when things start to be annoying and boring...

as for the glass tastings, i haven't heard about such things, but i'm well aware that a glass can make or break a wine. So can temperature, too little or too much 'chambering' (don't know how you english pig-dogs call it) and so on. although i do appreciate a good wine, i'd never consider buying a glass @ 60$. thats just for the pro's. (guess thats why they call it a somelier glass )

always makes my skin crawl when i see some nitwit campers or picnickers drink wine out of a can... apparently it is an idea that came over from the US, another bright idea we have to thank em for, but with that kind of wine it wouldnt really taste much better in a glass anyway

 

[Jebus]

but with that kind of wine it wouldnt really taste much better in a glass anyway

Tsk tsk.

Californian Chardonnay's actually quite good...

 

[alec]

Damn those misleading titles. Damn them. I actually thought this was about tasting glass. You know: eating glass. Digesting it. I had a weird dream about that 3 or 4 nights ago. I was munching on Petri dishes and I was actually quite enjoying them. They tasted a little salty and made my gums bleed.

Been having really weird dreams lately. Last night it was people who were setting their faces on fire just for the thrill of it. Jeez.

Then again: people who go to wine glass tastings must be weird too. Now that I come to think of it: even wine tastings seem pretty weird to me. A bunch of nouveau riches sucking up fluids and then spitting them out again, claiming that it has a wonderful bouquet consisting of caramel and pecan nuts mixed with aubergines and dry wood, although no wine I know of actually contains caramel or aubergines or pecan nuts or dry wood. Nope. Wine is made of grapes, and that's a fact.

Ah well, the world keeps turning no matter what eh?

 

[Ozrat]

always makes my skin crawl when i see some nitwit campers or picnickers drink wine out of a can... apparently it is an idea that came over from the US, another bright idea we have to thank em for

Never ever ever heard of such a thing. Must be a local thing of yours.

 

[Wooz]

Heh, there's wine in plastic bags at the store at the nearest corner.

Still, I agree with UJ, different glasses for different wines. Try drinking Champagne out of a red wine glass.

Ych.

 

[Murdoch]

The only reason wine is still bottled is the snob factor. Coatings and treatments to box and can wine recreate the glass bottles effect on the wine flavor, but for far less cost than bottling it.

And while I agree that the effect of using a spigot to pour your glass is less attractive, in the final analysis the wine itself is the focus, not its packaging.

 

[Dove]

always makes my skin crawl when i see some nitwit campers or picnickers drink wine out of a can... apparently it is an idea that came over from the US, another bright idea we have to thank em for, but with that kind of wine it wouldnt really taste much better in a glass anyway

Erm.

Nope they don't sell wine in cans here in the U.S. Sorry to burst your bubble. Closest they come to that is small four ounce glass bottles.

No cans.

 

[SuAside]

Erm.

Nope they don't sell wine in cans here in the U.S. Sorry to burst your bubble. Closest they come to that is small four ounce glass bottles.

No cans.

sorry to burst your bubble but "the US" isn't just your little patch of land. i'd believe the country is big enough to assume that there are some articles not sold nationwide.

anyhow. i was at a winetasting in the Loire region last summer (tagged along with my dad) and at the chateau there was a little speech about the future of wine, current evolutions and stuff, by one of the big wine producers in France. he referred to the phenomenon of cans and specifically mentioned the idea blew over from the US (and he didn't neglect to say how despicable it was).

i'd guess the dude should know better than you do Dove (& Ozrat), although i'm glad to hear it's not a nationwide phenomenon...

 

[Elissar]

Lets see, I've been drinking in California, alaska, wisconsin, the carolinas, virginia, and florida.... and have never seen a can of wine.

Saw quite a few cans and bottles of beet though....

 

[Dove]

Like I said (being in the business somewhat) There are NO fucking cans of wine in the U.S.!

 

[Ugly John]

But you can get wine in a box, anywhere from 2lt to 20lt.

You DO know that you can't drink the wine when wine tasting, right?

I spit when wine tasting, but it was to test the glasses, and how they made you perceive wine differently, so i swallowed.

If you go to a scotch tasting, you will know that it is offensive to spit, as usually the brewmaster is present and will take it personnally.

 

[Jebus]

But you can get wine in a box, anywhere from 2lt to 20lt.

Yeah, you can get them in boxes here too. And I don't taste a bit of difference.

Also, Sua: I too have never, ever seen wine in a can. Ever. But who knows, perhaps the Aldi or something indeed has them. Who knows.
That doesn't mean the "phenomenon" hàs to have been blown over (?) from the USA. And frankly, if all the Americans here say they have never seen the damned things, I'll believe them over some snobistic winetaster that probably hasn't left his mother's basement in ten years. How the hell's he going to know how they drink their wine in the USA...

 

[Tannhauser]

SuAside, the fellow is a blowhard. He has no knowledge on the subject which he speaks (I'm not saying he doesn't know anything about wine, though that fact is not outside the realm of possibility either, but he certainly doesn't know anything about canned wine) and is looking for an excuse to lampoon the United States (hoping, correctly it seems, that no one will call his bluff).

The idea of canned wine comes from Australia, from Gowrie Mountain Estate to be exact. They are the originators of the idea.