Eclat Wine Emotions

The 35 cl bowl is the size for white wine. A smaller volume means the wine warms up more slowly in the glass, which is exactly what you want with a crisp white. The 47 cl bowl is for red: it takes a normal pour with plenty of air above it, so the wine can breathe without you filling the glass too far. Look at the opening as well; a bowl that narrows towards the top keeps the aroma together. For more choice per type of wine, the red wine glasses and the white wine glasses are gathered separately.

Fill both bowls to about a third. That feels sparing, but it is the reason the glass is so large: the space above is working space. Swirl the glass a few times by the stem before you smell, so the wine runs up the wall and creates more surface. Hold the glass by the stem and not by the bowl, otherwise your hand warms the wine. For a kir royal you take a different glass, but a jug of sangria is precisely what the large bowl is for.

Crystalline glass contains no lead but does contain other metal oxides that make it clearer and stronger than ordinary glass, so the stem can stay slim without snapping straight away. They are dishwasher safe, but stand them upright in a basket with stem clips rather than letting them tip over. The stem is the weak point, not the bowl.

If you want to see what else this brand makes, there is the Eclat page. For a broader overview of every bowl shape, the wine glasses are gathered together, and anyone looking for stemless table glasses to go with them should look at the water glasses. If you also pour without alcohol, the mocktails page has recipes that come into their own in a wine bowl.