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A Wine Tastes Differently Depending Upon the Glass Although it was billed as a stemware seminar for wine drinkers and sponsored by the Orange County Wine Society (California), my husband Sam and I went anyway. After all, Georg Riedel, the head of the famed Riedel stemware company, was conducting the seminar and maybe we could learn a few things about stemware and drinking water. Riedel has been dubbed the "King of Crystal" by Wine Spectator magazine (December 15, 1999 issue) and is the 10th generation in the Riedel family of glassmakers. His passion is designing individual stemware to enhance the taste, smell and enjoyment of specific types of wines. His mission that September 28th evening was to demonstrate how drinking the same wine in different types of glasses could change your perception of the wine. He made believers of his audience, or at least those at our table. So for you wine drinkers, I urge you to find out more. The glass - in terms of shape and size -does absolutely, positively make a difference in the quality, depth and enjoyment of the wine experience. In some glasses I did not even enjoy a particular wine, while in others, I thought it could be a favorite wine. But Riedel Says "Water Is Water" Meanwhile, what does stemware mean for water? After the seminar in a personal conversation, I asked Georg Riedel about choosing the appropriate stemware for fine water thinking he might recommend something different for a sparkling vs. still water. Instead, he said, "Water is water." There are no special glasses for drinking different types of water, he added. At FineWaters, we think differently and will be testing that concept in the near future. Meanwhile, the Riedel options for crystal glassware for fine waters are profiled in the November 2004 issue of The Water Connoisseur. Organizations Orange County Wine Society PO Box 11059 Costa Mesa, CA 92627 Tel: 714-708-1636 Riedel Crystal America 96 Mayfield Avenue, PO Box 6623 Edison, NJ 08818-6623Tel: 732-346-8960 Fax: 732-346-8977
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