Your Simple Guide to Wine Glasses - Which One Is Best for Your Favorite?

According to wine experts, the right glass designed for a specific wine type helps bring out the flavours and aromas of the wine, making the wine drinking experience more enjoyable. So if you are looking to enhance your enjoyment of wine, it is important to choose the wine glass that is appropriate for the type of wine you are going to drink.

Different Types of Wine Glasses

When checking the stores that sell glassware online, you will come across many types of wine glasses, each one designed for general wine categories:

• White wine glasses – Medium-tall glasses with a long stem.
• Red wine glasses – Glasses that have shorter stems and wider bowls.
• Champagne flutes – Glasses that have long-narrow bowls that allow the bubbles to rise.
• Bordeaux glasses – The perfect 'all purpose' wine glass designed to hold good red wines as well as great white wines. 
• Explaining the Basic Types of Wine Glasses

Red Wine Glasses

Red wine glasses are designed to enhance the specific characteristics of red wine. As mention above, they have short stems and wide bowls. Since red wines present their best flavours and aromas at room temperature, holding the glass by its bowl does not cause the temperature of your hand to warm up the wine. And that is the reason why the stems are not long. It does not make any difference if you will hold the glass by its stem or bowl. Because red wines usually have heavier tannin than white wines, aerating the wine helps to soften the tannins and release the wine's flavour and aromas. Hence, larger bowls provide more surface area so the wine can be aerated.

White Wine Glasses

Tall and elegant, white wine glasses are designed with a specific purpose: to make great white wines even greater. As previously mentioned, the way you hold a glass of wine may cause the wine to get heated. Great white wines show their aromas and flavours the best when cold, and holding the glass by the stem will keep the wine at its ideal temperature longer, hence the long stems. White wines do not require to be aerated as red wines. This makes large bowls totally unnecessary.

Regardless if it is a red wine glass or a white one, all wine glasses should present a shape that delivers the wine to the front of the mouth. It will allow to best perceive the wine flavour.

When it comes to colour, you can choose to purchase either a clear or coloured wine glass. However, according to experts clear wine glasses makes a better choice since it allows you to observe the colour, legs and clarity of the wine. There is also wine glasses available at glassware online stores made of different materials. Crystal glasses are the #1 choice among wine lovers because the rough surface of the crystal allows the wine to breath more.

Although some wine lovers make a big deal about drinking a certain wine out of its proper wine glass, others literally feel the difference. Overall, what really matters is to find a great white wine or a red one that you love and enjoy it in whatever glass it tastes good for you!