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Originally Posted by unclebilly
One of the last PCA dinners I attended had a member complaining that the venue didn’t use proper champagne glasses…
I regret sitting at that table. It was a long week that evening…
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Some of the finer wine-focused restaurants are serving champs and sparkling wines out of smaller white wine glasses - like a Riedel Sauv Blanc varietal glass. That, and serving them a little less cold, lets the drinker get more aromas. It also of course reduces the types of glass to maintain on inventory.
I assume flutes are long and narrow to keep your nose out of the fumes and to shoot the thing back quickly so as not to really taste it. Handy for "commodity" wines but not if it's something special.
And "not the proper glass"? That's somewhere on the "precious-insufferable" spectrum. While I have my opinions and preferences - I've had some limited release grower champagnes out of plastic (or, gasp!) styro hotel room cups, sometimes even with Thai or similar takeout food.