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Pastimes : Tasted Any Good Wines Lately? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Hughes who wrote (255)	1/16/1999 9:05:00 PM
From: coug	Respond to of 300

Chaz, First of all, don't sit on that wine once it is opened.. in a decanter, or crystal or..... Second of all, what you drink that good wine out of, matters not one wit,,water cup, coffee cup or God forbid plastic cup... It is great, if you have great ambiance, great company and a great feeling for life. The best wine I tasted was because of number two, the worst wine.. well..... the Coug.... Sort of like ole Stewball, "he only drinks water and at night he drinks Wine"..

To: Charles Hughes who wrote (255)	1/17/1999 8:34:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 300

>I would just caution that if the glass truly affects the taste of the wine in some way, that is probably due to some chemical process< Not always. I had the privilege some time back of trying the same wine from four different "connoisseur" wine glasses. (One or two were Riedels, the others were... other. I believe the Impitoyables glass was in there.) The wine was only briefly in the glass, so leaching was not an issue. It's the shape of the glass which makes all the difference - the odorants and flavorants experience different concentration gradients. Riedel does a fair job of matching glass shape to the type of wine - depending on whether oxygenation and/or volatiles release should be fast or slow. I did read an article on lead and wine some years ago. it takes a fair bit of lead to be genuinely toxic. It ain't plutonium or PCBs. Worrisome levels were reached in wine or brandy kept in leaded crystal decanters, but it took months. Btw, lead ions are almost without flavor. Lead acetate is sweetish, but to truly appreciate the flavor you are eating too much :-)