Do you think wine taste is affected by stainless steel glasses?

WINE TALK
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Have been looking into different typed of wine glasses and found a company called Eminence Wine – http://www.eminencewine.com – making stemless stainless steel tumblers.

Do you think the taste of wine will be affected by drinking out of stainless steel? Perhaps it will enhance the wine drinking experience?

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No, but check out Go-Vino glasses. Plastic, by not horrible. We use them all the time (we have 3 kids under 5).

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It’s hard to imagine drinking wine from steel cups other than at Mass. I’d go with one of the plastic ones.

Actually, what I’d really do is just use something like Schott Zweisel titanium glasses, which are pretty break resistant and inexpensive enough not to be a big deal if one breaks here and there. Better an occasional cleanup and $10 glass lost than drinking good wines all the time out of plastic or steel glasses.

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Stainless when clean will impart no flavor to wine. The tanks used to age un oaked chardonnay are stainless.

I have some of these glasses and I would recommend avoiding them because they do often effect the flavor?

How?

The stainless glasses I have are machined and have grooves. My theory is that crud builds up in these grooves and grows… regular dishwasher does not clean them well enough and I get smells on my wine. If I scrub the glass by hand with brush and soap it will come clean and no smells. So they do work if properly cleaned but dishwasher wont work. you need to scrub em by hand…

too bad as they look cool…

Sean

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Our glass retains the nourishing richness of the finest wines and spirits

nourishing?
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Wine = nourishment makes sense to me. [cheers.gif]

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Those little grooves are retaining nourishment, not crud. A feature, not a bug!

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The “glasses” are pretty cool looking but why go for the minimalist look all the time? I prefer something like this:
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Or if you prefer to keep as close as you can to the barrel version, maybe this:
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Agree wholeheartedly. When my daughter was under 5 we were adamant about only giving her wine in plastic glasses champagne.gif

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What a great question.

Coffee aficionados frequently say that stainless affects the flavor of their brew.

As do some ‘water connoisseurs’ I know.

Certainly, stainless stems may give your mouth a different feel vs. other materials, but I have never considered the taste aspect!

People have pointed out the presence of steel in wine making, with no downside, so I would venture to guess stainless stemware would potentially simply give you a different sensation that’s not ‘flavor.’

I’ve got to go find stainless stems to try and see!

Beer is can different than bottle?

Wine in can different than bottle?

Great topic you brought up.

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Yup, we waited until they were old enough to say they wanted stemware instead of just stretching a nipple over the top of a bottle.

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Another thing is that wine in a steel glass will come up to room temperature much faster than in a glass stem, as steel conducts heat much better.

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If you leave water in a stainless canteen for a few days it smells terrible, not sure I’d want to chance it.

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While I’m old and my palate isn’t the best anymore, my daughter insists there is a difference between glass bottles and cans. We have done several blind tastings, and she has been flawless at picking out the cans.

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Rick,

Does your daughter prefer the beers from bottles? I haven’t had beer from a can in years and years, but I thought that for some they were now considered a better container, not least because of the complete exclusion of light.

As for metal “glasses”, I really dislike them, including those colored aluminum ones from our childhoods; it’s the offputting mouthfeel that Anton mentioned.

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After 10 years working in a SS yacht hardware fabrication shop the idea of drinking anything out of SS horrifies me.

If it was buffed and polished 316 that was somehow pickled in acid it may be OK. The SZ Tritan glasses are unbelievable. We bought 4 Burgundy glasses on a recent trip to LA and used them for a week, threw them in a bag and brought them home in my carry on. They are nearly indestructible.

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My daughter prefers beer in bottles. Some consider cans a better container (weight being the main advantage), but less sophisticated canning systems (like the ones that smaller producers would use) tend to add more dissolved oxygen to the beer which advances oxidation.

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Haha – these are beautiful but I’m looking for something a litttle more practical :slight_smile:

Thanks Anton. You bring up some good points. I don’t think the flavor itself would be affected but rather the qualia of drinking may be different. Perhaps for the better? Could be an interesting way of enhancing the wine drinking experience.

As Lee Short pointed out

In regards to SZ Tritan glasses:

Tritan glasses really freighten me – The ‘safer' plastics designed to replace BPA may be just as bad for you. It seems that they’re just as bad as BPA. Which is why how I got interested in these steel glasses to begin with.

I think I’m going to order a set of these Eminence Wine stainless steel wine glasses! I’ll report back to you guys on how they are.

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The SZ glasses aren’t made of plastic. They’re made of titanium glass. The govino glasses are made of tritan plastic. If you’re looking for glasses for home that won’t break, I would get the SZ or WE fusion glasses.

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Thanks, Rick; my inclination is to stick with beer in bottles but I do understand the weight rational of cans.