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How To Serve Wine
By June Enright, 20 Mar 19:37
Wine may be seem daunting, but with a few easy tips, your guests will think you're a great somellier
Do you have lots of questions about serving wine when you host a dinner party at home? Questions like:
* What kind of wine glasses should I use?
* What temperature should the wine be at?
* Should I let the wine breathe?
* Opening the wine
* Decanting
* Should I serve the wine my guest brought?
Let's answer those questions one by one so you can serve wine without stress at your home dinner party.
All purpose wine glasses:
Some people have special glasses for serving wine of different kinds. They have balloon red wine glasses for Burgundy wine, or tulip shaped wine glasses for Merlot. Then they have a special white wine glass as well. If you serve champagne or sparkling wine, it’s nice to have flute-shaped wine glasses. But otherwise, the usual dinner party planning rule applies: Keep it simple.You and I don’t need to have a cupboard full of wine glasses for serving wine at our home dinner parties.
Start with a supply of all purpose wine glasses that you can use for serving wine of almost any kind. Wine glasses with stems are nice because you can twirl the wine by the stem to release the aromas without heating up the bowl of the glass with your hands. The tulip shape is a shape that is widely used as an all purpose shape at wine tastings.You can usually find these wine glass
Things you might need
Wineall-purpose wine glasses
wine bottle opener
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