Matt Kramer takes on The Mud People...take THAT Mr. Keller!

WINE TALK
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Read it and replied . . .

Don’t need to be a ‘wine snob’ to realize that glassware DOES make a difference with wines . . .

Of course, that does NOT mean that every restaurant needs to supply 20 different types of stemware depending upon variety, region, etc . . .

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers!

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Amazing the difference proper glasses make. I’m not embarrassed to tote my own if the restaurant doesn’t do an adequate job in my opinion.

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Great article

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I think there are exceptions to the above. For instance, here in Costa Mesa we have a tapas style restaurant that serves their “simple” Spanish wines in tumblers and it works well there. The most expensive wine on their brief list is $23 so nothing too complicated, just good food wine.
Sounds like Ad Hoc has some more serious wines on their list which Do require more suitable glassware.

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I agree in general and have done comparison tastings between glassware with results usually for better glassware. That said, people do make too much a big deal about it. I’ve drunk some heavy duty wines like Kosta Browne out of straight glasses or even coffee mugs at a funky pizza joint.

If you think in advance it is going to be worse and it is going to bother you (the glassware), it is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

A.

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I agree and have tasted some great wines out of less-than-stellar glasses . . .

That said, it really does not do the wine justice - and one may think a wine is not very good but in fact it may be great, but showing poorly because of the stemware.

I remember doing tastings with my classmates at UC Davis and was constantly amazed at how different the same wines smelled (and tasted) out of the various hodge-podge of glassware that we individually brought.

Cheers!

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That article is a very entertaining read and of course Matt is right about the glassware.

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For those of you seeking additional Kramer wine articles, I stumbled across this archive of his articles from The Sun a while back:

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Thanks, some interesting reads.