Zwiesel Glas Perfect Match

The difference between 56.3 and 51.4 cl looks small, but it lies mainly in the shape of the bowl. The roomier bowl gives red wine more contact with air, so firm tannins come across as softer; the slightly narrower bowl keeps the aromas of crisp white wine together better. In both cases, pour up to the widest point of the bowl and no higher, so about a third full. If you are after a pronounced burgundy shape or a narrow riesling bowl, have a look at the red wine glasses and the white wine glasses.

Hold the glass by the stem and not by the bowl, because a warm hand raises the temperature of white wine within a few minutes. Swirl the wine briefly before you smell it; the effervescence point in the base helps here too if you pour sparkling wine. This size also works for wine-based drinks: an aperol spritz calls for a generous bowl full of ice, and sangria is poured fruit and all, holding the fruit back with a long spoon until the glass is full.

Tritan crystal glass by Zwiesel Glas is made to survive dishwasher cycles without going dull. Place the glasses apart from each other in the rack and choose a programme without an extremely long drying phase. If a haze remains, hard water is more often the cause than the glass; rinsing and drying with a linen cloth solves it. Once dry, stand them upright in the cupboard and do not stack anything on top of them.

More from this line can be found at Zwiesel Glas. If you want to let the wine breathe first, a decanter helps, and for a bottle that has to stay cold there is a wine cooler ready. You can see all the models side by side at the wine glasses. Torn between the two sizes in this series? Take the roomier bowl: a white wine works perfectly well in it, whereas a full-bodied red disappoints in a narrow bowl.