wondering about reidel o wine glasses

This sort of thing gets in the way of enjoyment! I thought Cab at first but think maybe on balance Shiraz. Personally I think it is all too much refinement. :=) Joseph Coulter Joseph Coulter Cruises and Vacations

I wouldn't stress over things like this. I keep Bordeaux, Burgundy, Riesling/Rose, Chardonnay, and Champagne glasses handy, but drink lots of other kinds of wine, and just guess what's closest. As Malbec is historically a part of Bordeaux blends, I'd go with the CS/Merlot glass in your case. But really don't worry about it - I've drunk a lot of Bordeaux from Burg stems (and vice versa).

Yes, I have plenty of other glasses, too - not stressing :-))

Great answer: "As Malbec is historically a part of Bordeaux blends, I'd go with the CS/Merlot glass in your case."

I'll go with that. Thanks for your reply; my appreciation. Dee Dee

Beyond which, don't you have the excellent opportunity to find out for your own tastes? Grab a decent Malbec, fill each of the four glasses with some of it, and taste them against each other. You didn't say which or wherefrom Malbec; the good Argentinean are considerably different (and to my tastes better) from the French Malbecs (Cahors and whatever.) I love Malbec and am very interested in what you come up with; my bet would be the Shiraz if Argentine, cab if French. Do tell...

pavane

Are they better than Riedel glassses?

Anders

PS: Very different pronunciation... :-)

That is what I was thinking in my response. Malbec is a blending wine France but where it is the primary grape it is bigger thean Cab Sauv.

For that matter Cab from CA and Bordeaux just don't seem to fit in the same glass, as it were, either.

On 02/15/2010 01:35 PM, Joseph Coulter wrote: []

Hi Joe,

I'm sure you know, but Malbec is used as a primary grape in many Cahors, and also in the Loire (Touraine principally) where it is known as Cot.

Just to clear up a point... ;)

Never mix 'em.

-E

OOPS, that is what I meant in "where it is the primary" and of course I have this perception that there is a huge difference in Cahors and Touraine wines made from Malbec/Cot- when last did you hear of the black wines of Tours?

Thanks for the suggestion. Drinking the last Malbec I had, from Argentina, I will wait until I purchase the next bottle to do the test.

Looking in the kitchen at the unwashed glasses, I see that I must have used a 'generic' wine glass; hence my query to this list.

Thanks again. Good advice. Dee Dee

Dee wrote on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:58:52 -0500:

I would endorse the "generic" wine glass for drinking with meals and I do like thin, undistorted glasses but I find the two sizes that I have,

6 oz and 5 oz, are entirely adequate, apart from some small glasses for dessert wines like sherry. I don't always worry about which size I use but I will see to it that all guests have the same size. I admit that I do sometimes drink red wines to enjoy by themselves and I have a few 14 oz glasses to have a large air space above the wine to savor the flavor.

I like it: "The Black Wine of Tours." Hehe. (Sorry for the misread.)

-E

And if I really cared about matching glasses and wine, I'd do that for every wine I drank irrespective of the names Riedel happen to slap on the glasses. I find impossible to believe that the Bordeaux glass or Cab Sauv glass is the best for ALL Bordeaux and Cab Sauv. The flavours and aromatics can be so different in different examples.

(In fact I find thw whole Riedel glass-matching thing difficult to believe too, but that is another story.)

Dee Dovey beliebte zu schreiben :

Just for the record:

The correct spelling is "Riedel", pronounced "reedle".

Helmut

Just in analogy to "riesling" pronounced "reezling".

But "ei" for "ie" in German words is a rather common typo among native English speakers (is that correct?).

M.

"Michael Pronay" wrote ....................

Only those people writing *American* English!!!!!!! ;-)

Those of us who speak / write proper English have no such problem.

StH

You mean English, that mixture of French and German that has proven so popular in the last century? Yes I hear its use is on the ries. Rise?

Ooops - sorry, didn't realize that!

I beg your pardon, I stand corrected.

M.

Michael, I've always found the ie/ei transposition baffling, myself. Students of English usually are drilled with the rubric: "i before e except after c" because ie is in fact more common than ei.

Oh, well... Mark Lipton