Glasses from which various wines are drunk are designed to correctly reveal the aroma and taste of a particular drink. The wrong way to hold the glass during tasting can distort the quality of the wine and turn vintage champagne into ordinary white sparkling wine, and aged cognac into ordinary one. Holding a glass correctly is not difficult at all, for this there are long-established rules.
Instructions
Step 1
Hold wine glasses by the stem. This is not only beautiful, but also allows you to maintain the temperature at which the wine was served.
Step 2
Depending on the volume of the glass and the length of the leg, it is held with three, four or five fingers. You cannot use only two fingers for this - the index and the thumb, because a glass of wine is not something that can cause disgust. At the same time, you should not protrude the little fingers either - it will look, at least, too mannered. It is allowed to use three fingers for this - middle, index and thumb.
Step 3
Wine glasses, regardless of whether white or red wine is poured in them, should not be held by the cup - firstly, ugly fingerprints remain on it, and secondly, the wine can heat up from this and its taste will change.
Step 4
It is allowed to hold a glass of champagne by the stand or by the more stable lower part of the leg. As well as for other wines, the contact of the fingers of the hand with the bowl or its lower part is excluded, so as not to heat up the noble drink, which reveals its best properties and “plays” only when chilled.
Step 5
A completely different matter is a cognac glass, which has a traditional round "snifter" shape, narrowed at the top. It is held in the palm of your hand, passing a short leg between the fingers. At the same time, the glass should be slightly rotated, allowing it to flow down the walls of the bowl warmed by the palm, "breathe" oxygen, revealing the full fragrant aroma of this drink. Recently, cognac has also been drunk from tulip-shaped glasses, holding them by the stem.
