Parker’s Name on Your Glass Is Sure to Impress
Robert Parker (who lives right up the road in Monkton, MD) is offering limited edition wine glasses on his eRobertParker.com store. The glasses are top notch and carry all the features you’d expect in a top-flight wine glass, including a $250 price tag (for a set of two). $125 spent and you haven’t even popped the wine yet! Ye Gods.
http://dat.erobertparker.com/WAStore/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=10&cat=Accessories
The full listing (members only) has a primer on how to drink from the glasses (seriously, it tells you how to drink…)
1. Fill the glass up to 1/5 of its capacity, making sure not to go above the lower tip point of the indentation.
2. Keep the glass still, and ‘smell’ the primary aromas as they slowly develop.
3. Gently swirl the wine. When the wine encounters the indentation, the swirling of the liquid is ‘disturbed’ so that the volatile substances are fully dispersed in the air. Small bubbles form as the aromas, the bouquet and the oxygen combine and dissolve.
4. In the mouth, the deployment of the bouquet enhances the aromatic compounds, as they interact with the tongue’s sensory buds and with the retro nasal tract.
5. The Brunello’s indentation is asymmetrical: when the wine is rotated against its sharper edge, the lighter aromatic compounds are released; when the rotation is in the opposite direction, the impact against the indentation is gentler and the more alcoholic scents emerge. Be careful not to spin too fast, causing the aromas (or the wine itself!) to escape from the glass.
In a class move, the proceeds for these glasses will to go charity. Drink up!
