GLASSWARE
The Finest Stemware Thinking about it logically, one can commit a lot of money, time and passion buying great wine, storing it perfectly, decanting it and, in the final hour of its long life, losing 50% of the aromatic beauty and taste sensation by using mediocre glasses – a disappointing end to such a promising and invested enterprise!
decanting a wine ensures that the sediment stays in the bottle and you get a beautifully bright wine in the decanter, and subsequently in your glass. Just as one loses the angel’s share with whisky, one should always sacrifice that final half glass of dirty wine at the bottom of the bottle.
STEMWARE… To help one avoid this terrible error, Farthinghoe has teamed up with Zalto, whose tag word ‘Glasperfektion’, sums it up for us. It’s so easy to overlook the importance of good glasses but it makes such a huge difference. They accentuate all the wine’s characteristics, creating greater intrigue on the nose and pleasure in the mouth. Zalto glasses are incredibly thin, elegant and light and just beautiful to handle – the stems actually flex as you swirl! Despite their elegance, they are 100% dishwasher proof and being leadfree, remain absolutely clear and bright, despite almost daily use.
A more everyday reason to decant is to aerate the wine and I feel most wines benefit from being decanted, and it looks so much more stylish of course! Many young wines can be tight or closed on the nose or palate. As the wine is slowly poured from the bottle to the decanter it takes in oxygen, helping to open up and release those aromas and flavours. Highly tannic and full-bodied wines benefit most from this. If you don’t normally decant your wine, please do try it, you’ll be amazed at the difference. As obliged as one may feel to use the wedding-gifted crystal-cut glasses sitting in the side-board, we would thoroughly recommend a small investment in some beautiful Zalto glasses. Designed and handcrafted to make your wines look, smell and taste at their very best, just begs the question….why wouldn’t you?
DECANTING…. Many of us associate decanting with older vintage Ports or aged Bordeaux – wines that throw off a lot of sediment as they age. Decanting separates the bright wine from the cloudy sediment, allowing it to look beautiful in the glass – one of the pleasures – but also separating the astringent characteristics of the tannins. Slowly and carefully
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