Has anyone tried reidels malt whisky glasses ....do the make a difference to the dram?!
Usually she does wine tasting with lots of different wines and uses the standard tasting glass. However, this was a Reidel tasting and it was the same wine but from different glasses. The conclusion was that the glass could indeed make a noticeable difference to the taste.
Taste is made up of not just what happens in the mouth but sight and smell as well. Some glasses just look more attractive, and then other glasses give more or less air exposure to the liquid thereby reacting with it. Some shapes intensify the aroma more to your nose whilst others diffuse it more. Some feel chunky on the lips whilst others light and delicate. All this affected how the wine "tasted"... and in tastings such as this there is little difference in principles between wine and whisky.
Do they make a difference.... technically yes they probably can do. However, I would imagine that unless you were tasting one style next to the other I don't think you would notice that great a difference to your dram when you sit back in your armchair unless you usually drink it out of a mug or tumbler :-)
Answers: Rose Murray Brown, Master of Wine and wine writer, did a feature in the Scotsman newspaper a few months back that relates to this question.
Usually she does wine tasting with lots of different wines and uses the standard tasting glass. However, this was a Reidel tasting and it was the same wine but from different glasses. The conclusion was that the glass could indeed make a noticeable difference to the taste.
Taste is made up of not just what happens in the mouth but sight and smell as well. Some glasses just look more attractive, and then other glasses give more or less air exposure to the liquid thereby reacting with it. Some shapes intensify the aroma more to your nose whilst others diffuse it more. Some feel chunky on the lips whilst others light and delicate. All this affected how the wine "tasted"... and in tastings such as this there is little difference in principles between wine and whisky.
Do they make a difference.... technically yes they probably can do. However, I would imagine that unless you were tasting one style next to the other I don't think you would notice that great a difference to your dram when you sit back in your armchair unless you usually drink it out of a mug or tumbler :-)
Does a glass really make a difference?