Tell me about scotch glasses

[GreekGuy]

So I have some Glencairn glasses, which make an enormous improvement over a bourbon glass. Side note to you whisky fans, if you don't have one, you should get one, I promise its worth it.

Anyway, I notice a lot of "professional" tasters use a more slender style of glass, a stemmed tulip style. And then Riedel makes a scotch glass which looks kinda like a vase, under both its Vinum and Sommeliers lines.

Does anyone have experience with these other styles of glassware and could comment? I'm looking into getting some new ones, and hopefully some type of small case to carry them in to tastings.

I appreciate your thoughts

 

[Eeyore]

I use cognac glasses.

 

[shavefreak]

The slender tasting or vase style glasses directs more aroma to the nose than wide mouth glasses.

 

[Aristeros]

+1

I use a Glencairn or similar for whisky, and tend to use a tulip or goblet for certain pales, Belgians, Saisons, etc.

 

[OfTheWild]

I use glencairn glasses if im being fancy... but a tapered tumbler is just as good once you're accustomed to the scotch you're drinking. The narrow top apparently keeps the evaporating alcohol contained better. Something about not blasting your sense of smell when you take a sip and ruin the subtle under tones of the scotch.

 

[Eeyore]

The slender tasting or vase style glasses directs more aroma to the nose than wide mouth glasses.

A good cognac glass (French) does not have a wide mouth. Besides, it is made from crystal, so that it takes the temperature of the environment very quickly.

To be fair, I am not sure if we talk about the same "cognac glasses"?

 

[Beerhunter]

I have some vintage rolly polly glasses some W/ 50-60's graphics are my fav the plain ones thanks to mad men I have begun to hate my plain glass. I have been looking at a glencairn glass but I wondered if it was a gimmic, but if it works ill get one.

 

[DogHair]

I prefer a heavy double old-fashioned glass. Nambe makes my favorite. I have Glencarins and the Riedel Single Malt glasses but the double old-fashioned just feels better.

 

[GreekGuy]

I prefer a heavy double old-fashioned glass. Nambe makes my favorite. I have Glencarins and the Riedel Single Malt glasses but the double old-fashioned just feels better.

Can you compare the Glencairns and Riedels at all? Notice any difference in smell or taste between the two?

 

[DogHair]

Can you compare the Glencairns and Riedels at all? Notice any difference in smell or taste between the two?

Not really. The Riedels are cool glasses and I use them occasionally. But I did read the technology touted by Riedel didn't actually work. The Glencarins are great tasting glasses and your can't really argue with the folks that developed them. I just don't find Glencarins an enjoyable glass for a relaxing drink.

 

[GreekGuy]

Not really. The Riedels are cool glasses and I use them occasionally. But I did read the technology touted by Riedel didn't actually work. The Glencarins are great tasting glasses and your can't really argue with the folks that developed them. I just don't find Glencarins an enjoyable glass for a relaxing drink.

Thank you so much for your thoughts! I've had my eyes on the Riedels but I already own the Glencairns and they aren't bad. Do you have the Sommelier or the Vinum Riedels? My understanding is at that point its really just aesthetics.

 

[DogHair]

Thank you so much for your thoughts! I've had my eyes on the Riedels but I already own the Glencairns and they aren't bad. Do you have the Sommelier or the Vinum Riedels? My understanding is at that point its really just aesthetics.

Mine Vinum. The others are a bit spendy.

 

[Torcams]

I have the Riedel single malt glasses and they never did much for me. I far prefer their cognac/port glass for serious malt nosing sessions.

 

[GreekGuy]

I have the Riedel single malt glasses and they never did much for me. I far prefer their cognac/port glass for serious malt nosing sessions.

Thank you very much for your thoughts. I do drink cognac as well so that might be a good alternative

 

[Legion]

*Cough*

 

[PFP_Dad]

Has anyone tried the NEAT glasses? I thought about buying one to give it a shot, but they're almost $20 a glass.

 

[dpm802]

I order my Johnnie Black on the rocks in a snifter glass ... for the sole reason that the stem makes it easy to hold on to while I'm walking around in the club, and the added depth of the glass makes it less likely to spill anything if someone bumps into me.

If I didn't say anything to the bartender, they'd serve it in a short, squat glass, I'm not sure what its called. But its shape is inconvenient and prone to spillage. So the snifter gets my vote every time, even though it may not be the correct container.

 

[Shantytownbrown]

For tastings, I prefer the tapered style glasses, but for daily drinking a Double Old Fashioned is my preference. I like something with a realatively thin edge, are deep and with slightly tapered or even straight sides. I do have some nice glasses I got in a scotch bottle set that do tapaer slightly to the top that are a nice cross between a DoF and a Snifter (without the base)

heres a link to a pic:

http://www.wellshouse.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/media/images/Whisky glasses/Bruichladdich.JPG

 

[kaliandee]

I just got myself some Glencairn glasses, which are great, but I still rather like drinking my scotch from crystal tumblers. I tend to go with the Glencairns for my first try of a new Whisky.

I've actually been served scotch in shot glasses before! I don't tend to go back to those places.

 

[jazzguy]

I have had the Riedel for years but I prefer the Glencairn now. I think it does a better job of directing the bouquet of the whisky. And you can get it in a B&B edition from WCS.