Scientists say glasses are better because they have a wide bowl to get the flavours into the air, then a narrow bit to get the same flavours into your nose/mouth, whilst flutes are narrow all the way up allowing less flavours to oxygenate. I also love a glass from Richard Brendon!!! Another motive I had was talking about this wine, it’s the most surprising wine I’ve had all month. It’s a bit boring to say “English wine is good” these days, everyone’s kind of got the memo. But this wine is REALLY good, like smashing Champagne for 6 good, and it’s only £22 with a clubcard at Tesco
Tasting: Balfour Blanc de Blancs Brut
Glasses:
Flute – can’t remember, had it for years
Glass – Richard Brendon Precision universal glass
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Does that apply to all sparkling? Wine glass over flute?
@tomgilbeywine how cold are these sparkling wines?…they seem room temperature but perhaps it's just my eyes.
Straight from the bottle,half lip half air look a fool,tastes great
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Well now we need flute or coupe
Wine glass only.
What about those wide "low" brim champagne glasses? (Like a wine glass cut 2/3 down)
Wine glass with a big, wide bowl like Burgundy is the best for everything 🙂
Saucer (aka coupe)?
I mean, I’m misquoting a bit, but Olivier Krug (of Krug champagne) said it best and it pretty much went like this: “To drink champagne out of a flute is like listening to an orchestra playing a symphony with earplugs.”
I don’t even drink champagne out of tulip glasses. It’s either a Universal glass (the type of glass shape Tom drinks from the most by Richard Brenden) or, if the wine is aged in the bottle for a long time or has spent more time on the lees than normal or has had something done to it that has made it extra powerful in nature, then honestly I’m putting it in a Burgundy glass. Champagne is a really powerful wine. The base wine is about as acidic as it gets, then you add the complexity of the extended lees aging. The bubbles provide a blast of flavor, yes, but also act as little aroma bombs each time they rise out of the glass. Champagne might be the most powerful, complex wine you can drink. It needs a large glass to allow it to shine, not all that far removed from a complex red wine. It needs air, it needs to be swirled, it needs something where you can stick your nose in it, and although I don’t personally do this, some even say it’s worth it to decant champagne, which should give you an idea of the beast we’re dealing with. So yeah, no flutes or coupes, it’s either proper stemware or paper cups because you’re having a backyard party and then you don’t care what you’re drinking out of (could be direct from the bottle)😂
I’ve moved from flute to wine glass and it’s so much more enjoyable and easier to get into my mouth
Doing the “big glass option” with a Cremant rose that I picked up from M&S this lunchtime – just because it’s Thursday today😉
Don't even drink wine but love watching someone so enthusiastic about something
More English wine please. Especially the stuff from Kent.
I wonder if he drinks the bottle that he opens or just tips them only saying cause he would be a piss can
Where did you get that snazzy belt from? 😅
Tom's become somewhat of a national treasure lol
Always flute for bubbles
The only problem with a wine glass for fizz, is I find it loses the bubbles more quickly. Maybe that means I'm just drinking to slowly! 😂
The English wine producers sure know how to charge for their wine.
Currently on offer for £22.50 (clubcard) until 22May.
blanc de blanc is french
Such a shame 😢 the flute is my favourite glass shape. Ah well, I'll just have to have two glasses, one of each!! 😊
Says no longer available in Tesco
Ooh yes some English wines are getting good. I like Balfour, Tinwood and Chapeldown at the moment.
the best sparkling wine I've ever had was a Balfour blanc de blancs circa 2014
They had a tough harvest and only produced 100 cases – we got the last three bottles from a restaurant in Kent while on holiday and I've regretted not buying as much as I could find at the time ever since. . .
I get more in my wine glasses .. so wine glasses it is ;-)))
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