By Matt Coughlin
Why Learn To Serve Wine Properly?
If you have ever bought a bottle of wine in a nice restaurant, you may have noticed that the server does not just pop the cork and pour you a glass, but instead goes through a specific process of opening the bottle, letting the buyer test the wine, [...]

By Angella Jones Brown
Wine is broadly classified into red and white wine. Red wine is usually prepared from black or red grapes while white wine can be prepared from any type of grapes. The color of red wine is not obtained due to the use of red or black grapes, on the contraire the main [...]

It occurred on a Sat. night. You hosted a wine tasting party for a grouping of 12 chums, and everything went perfectly. Well, just about everything. It did not take you long to find out that, while you had the ideal combination of cheeses, crackers and reidel wine glasses, folks were consistently confusing their glass with someone else’s.

The terms wine glasses and wine goblets are essentially interchangeable, though the goblet is a more traditional form that was used centuries ago. Unlike today’s typical wine glasses, these were made of other materials.

Wine goblets of all shapes, sizes, and materials have been used for hundreds of years. The oldest European wine glasses with the traditional stem and foot were enamelled and date from the 15th century. The end of the 1500s in Germany saw wine being drunk from decorated covered glasses.

Maximilian Riedel answers the “Should I decant?” question.