A friend & I were chatting about making good on our promise to go for a glass of wine after work some night soon and she suggested a place near the office that sounds fabulous. I don't see it on the menu, but apparently they have something called truffle fries..... hand cut steak fries drizzled with a blue cheese sauce of some description -- my God, I'd be in heaven.Anyway, my friend mentioned that the only downside to this place was they serve the wine in stemless glasses -- her feeling is that she drinks the wine too fast in this type of glass, as opposed to the traditional wine glass. I actually like the stemless glasses.... but the set I have came with a decanter and I mentioned that I have never actually used a decanter..... do people actually do that? Maybe it's that my budget wines don't call for a decanter.
Thoughts?
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The only time I see wine decanted is at business dinners when a high end wine is ordered....I think for our purposes (and for the record I think the wines we usually drink are just as good as the fancy wines) we don't need to let the wine breathe...stemless glasses? I'm on the fence on that one.
I like using a decanter during dinner as it looks nice on the table. I have found with the heavier red wines that it does help to let them breath a bit (at least better for my heartburn). Only bad thing about a decanter - I learned the hard way not to store my leftover red wine in the decanter as it will stain the glass. Oops!!!
I only decant if I am drinking red wine that costs more than $20 per bottle.
As for stemless glasses big ups. They fit much more nicely in my dishwasher.
I love them for reds only. If you use them for white your hands warm up the wine.
Personally, I can't stand stemless glasses. It sounds absurd to say this, but it makes the wine-drinking experience feel somehow less elegant to me.
Decanter? We have one, and have only used it when expressly directed by a wine store guy. Which means we've used it... uh... maybe four times in ten years. (But the wine store guy was completely right in each case.)
I second what Sarah said - stemless glasses warm the wine faster. That being said, I often catch myself "cupping" the stemmed wine glasses anyhow.
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