I have many dozens of different glasses (e.g., big snifters, little snifters, highball glasses, various cute airline wine glasses, various proprietary malt-whisky glasses with engraved homages to the distillery, shot glasses with Rhine river towns embossed on them, a shot glass with World Cup champion Brazil embossed on it) they come in all different sizes, sub-sizes, bulbousnesses, flute-nesses, and every other ness you can imagine.
But tonight I was reaching in desperation for glassware, and have stumbled upon the best single malt whisky glass I have ever used. I t's one that REALLY makes a difference. Visually, the liquid is pretty and enjoyable across a dappling variety of mirroring, refractions, and twisting visual dimensions. The nose goes well into the glass (and although the aromas aren't trapped, the presence of the product is permeating). And when it hits the palate the TEXTURE of the whisky is somehow vastly more palpable and alive than in other glassware. And the palate presence has this big, broad, assault that fills the mouth, and explodes in the nose. This is a truly lush and classy glass--sheer delight optically, and brilliant kinesthetically--it really sets off single malts in perfect style. It is: a martini glass.