Sparkling wine glass
A sparkling wine glass (also known as sparkling wine or champagne glass ) is a drinking glass that is specially used for sparkling wines such as sparkling wine , prosecco or champagne . These glasses are available in different shapes, which are divided into flutes, tulips, goblets and bowls.
Sparkling wine tulip
A sparkling wine tulip is usually understood to be a tall, downwardly conical sparkling wine glass with usually a short stem. The term alludes to the relatively tall, narrow shape of the glass, which is reminiscent of a tulip . Usually this glass holds 15 centiliters . It is intended for champagne, sparkling wine or other sparkling wines. It also serves cocktails and aperitifs made with champagne .
Sparkling wine flute
The goblet of the sparkling wine flute, which appeared in France around 1800, is raised and slightly everted at the edge. The long handle of the sparkling wine flute is intended to prevent the sparkling wine from warming up when it comes into contact with the drinker's hand. For this reason, sparkling wine flutes such as white wine glasses should only be lifted by the stem or even only by the bottom of the glass. Often other glass shapes, for example the sparkling wine tulip, are also referred to as flutes.
Similarities between the tulip and the flute
On the one hand, due to the elongated shape and narrow opening of both glass shapes, the carbon dioxide cannot evaporate so quickly; on the other hand, one can look particularly well at the mousse of the champagne, a quality feature. The fine carbon dioxide pearls are created in tiny, rough spots in the glass, the so-called mousse points . Some glass manufacturers deliberately work these bumps into sparkling wine glasses , and occasionally even small basalt stones are melted into the bottom of the glasses.
The physicist Gérard Liger-Belair dealt in detail with the physical effects of the formation of bubbles in a champagne glass due to microscopic dust particles.
Such flutes are also used in detergent tests to examine the drainage and drying behavior of glasses.
Sparkling wine bowl
A sparkling wine bowl , including a sparkling wine or champagne bowl, is not drawn up narrowly like a sparkling wine flute or tulip. It forms a flat bowl with a slender stem. The shape is significantly wider than it is tall. Sparkling wine bowls were very popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
Web links
André Dominé secret Perlage: Champagne researchers in Die Welt, November 23, 2014 (accessed November 25, 2016)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gérard Liger-Belair: "Effervescence in a glass of champagne: A bubble story" . Europhysics News (2002) Vol. 33 No. 1. Article ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
