produces a fairly acid wine and was not a favourite of mine until I tried it out of a Riedel Sauvignon blanc glass. Riedel’s design for that grape variety has a small bowl and a narrowish opening. So as you drink, the glass directs the flow toward the very front of your mouth where you pick up the delicious light fruitiness and, due to the small opening, sends a narrow stream of wine down the centre of your tongue well away from the edges that pick up the acids. So marked is the contrast that I now find I can drink Sauvigon blanc until the cows come home! Size does make a difference
The other big factor in getting the best from your wine is the shape and depth of the bowl. This is significant because all wines have a number of different layers of aromas. Typically the aromas in a white wine are lighter and shallower in depth so the white wine glasses tend to have smaller bowls. Many Reds on the other hand need a bigger deeper bowl without which the much more pronounced aromas that are naturally given off by the wine would literally spill over the side of the glass and get lost.
Clean delivery
So if you’re still with me there is one more influence on the flavour and that is how cleanly the wine is delivered into the mouth. If you look carefully at your own wine glasses you will probably see a slightly bulbous top edge to the glass. It looks insignificant but does actually interrupt the smooth transition of the wine from glass to mouth. So at Riedel they cut the top of the glass with a laser resulting in a completely clean edge that allows the bowl shape to do exactly what is intended. This may seem a bit extreme but these glasses are in reality “precision drinking instruments”, in which any wine is substantially enhanced. You don’t have to take my word for it as you can try it out for yourself without risk. At Art of Living we have a guarantee that allows you to try out any product we sell without risk . It’s simply this; you can return your glasses to us unused or used for a full refund if you find them disappointing for any reason whatsoever. If you enjoy wine then I can almost guarantee that you will appreciate a Riedel glass. Either ring us if youre uncertain which one to try first, or use our wine guide a little lower down the page.
Andrew Duncan
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I'd like to say that I'm an out and out Riedel fan and that's because these glasses have transformed my wine drinking life! 
and Riedel ones to the sound of a Transistor Radio and that of good quality Hi Fi. With the Transistor Radio you hear much of the music OK, but with the Hi Fi what you hear is the same music but on an entirely different scale and with so much more detail and nuance that sometimes you wonder if it's the same piece. So it is with wine in a Riedel glass. Quite often you will be fooled into thinking that you're drinking something far superior and in a different class. Really quite magic! 
