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Qualities of Good Scotch Glasses

Article Category: Advice

Author Name: Lawrence Reaves

In terms of relishing the taste of whiskies, yours is a free world. However, if you want to be as adept and as discriminating as the Scots in sipping single malts, you should learn these following essentials in Scotch glasses and whiskey tasting and appreciating.

On Scotch Glasses

Whisky glasses, in the jargon of tableware, are tumblers shaped nothing different from ordinary kitchen glasses, except perhaps from the fact that these whiskey glasses are designed with thicker bottoms. They are also called old Fashioned glass, lowball glass, or rocks glass. As far as whisky celebration is concerned, this traditional type of whisky container should be banned. What these tumblers actually do is to weaken the power of the spirit. When the mouth and the bottom of the glass are wide, it is very easy for the spirit to release its fragrance outside the glass. People too have this habit of pouring whisky on the rocks, a situation that further weakens the essence of the drink.

On Glass Details and Color

Presenting your rhinestone or jade studded glasses can establish your refined taste, but when you use them in serving single malts and you have Scottish guests, you will officially be declared silly. In terms of whiskey glasses, clarity and transparency are the ideals. The spirit is processed for several decades in order to attain a shiny and lustrous brown color. If this color is not seen clearly because the glasses are adorned with so many details, the hard work spent in achieving the target color will be wasted. Using painted whiskey glasses can only be forgiven if done during commercial comparison evaluations wherein tasters are removed of the possible bias in grading products through blinding their perception of the spirits' colors.

On the Ideal Glass Type

The truth is, there's still no social consensus regarding the best Scotch glasses for whiskies. The preferable whisky tasting glass, however, is one that has a small opening and a wide round bottom, designed with stem, and is produced with moderately thick crystal clear glass. With these characteristics, the qualifiers will be cognac tulip glasses and sherry copitas.

Recently however, Glencairn, a major whisky glass manufacturer, has come up with a special line of Scotch glasses that is said to combine all the ideal features needed in whisky observing, nosing, and tasting. The glass is provided with a stem shorter, thicker, and fatter than those in tulip glasses, and designed with a moderately wide mouth and a tall, round bowl. The wide mouth is said to provide convenience in the taster's nosing, the solid round bowl for stronger gripping, and the tall body for locking aromas and clear presentation of colors.

On Actual Tasting

There are thousands of guides regarding the procedures in tasting single malts, but all of them zero in on these following steps. First, observation of colors, a phase in which the drink's maturation is judged; second, nosing, wherein the complex changing of aromas of the drink is explored; and third, actual tasting, wherein the drink is evaluated on how it tastes and smells during the sip, while in the tongue, and before and after its slides down the throat.

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