Giving Wine a Rest

[winecollector]

Something else I've noticed that makes a big difference in the taste of a wine, is the shape of the glass you serve it in. Thus the reason we have so many sizes and shapes of wine glasses. I experienced a very striking difference when we bottled a concord/muscat blend a few months back. As we started bottling, we grabbed the first glasses we could reach- a bordeaux style glass and a burgundy glass. The wine in the burgundy glass had such a lovely floral aroma coming off of it, I almost hated to take my nose away from it since it smelled so good! Upon tasting from it, my mouth just got hit with so many flavors at once, it was like taste-bud overload! On the otherhand, the identical wine in the bordeaux glass tasted like a completely different wine. It tasted very plain, and hardly had any discernable aroma coming off of it at all. Go figure!

I've noticed the same phenomenom with different beers, as I am into dark beers as well. The style glass you use as well as the temperature you serve them at makes a big difference!