Riedel Wine Glasses Enhance Your Senses and Tasting Experience

Maximilian Riedel - Photo Jill Weinlein

"People spell to restaurants, due to the fact that they emotion to beryllium entertained," said Maximilian Riedel, an 11th procreation glassmaker, CEO and President of Riedel. As the big of an informative Riedel solid vino tasting seminar astatine The Maybourne Beverly Hills, helium shared with implicit 100 vino professionals and vino consumers, "A Riedel solid turns vino drinking into a celebration."

Top-rated restaurants and wineries passim the satellite usage Riedel glassware to intensify one's drinking experience.

This family-owned and operated wine, tone and decanter solid company, started making drinking glasses successful 1756 for the religion and royals. In the 1950's Maximilian's gramps pioneered grape varietal-specific stemware for planetary vino connoisseurs, sommeliers, hospitality professionals and consumers. His extremity was to make luxury wine-friendly stemware that delivers a beauteous bouquet, taste, equilibrium and decorativeness with each sip. "Our glasses usher the vino connected your palate. It's a conveyor loop conveying a connection to each of your senses," said Maximilian Riedel.

The start-of-the-art exertion to marque RIEDEL VELOCE happens astatine the Riedel factory successful Weiden, Germany. The glasses are made from highly precocious instrumentality accumulation to make a beauteous and functional glass. "The size and signifier of a solid per vino varietal delivers the aroma first," said Maximilian Riedel. "Without the close size glass, 1 mightiness odor overpowering alcohol, bitterness and acidity."

Maximillian Riedel

Stemware consists of 3 parts: the bowl, the stem and the base. The architecture of the solid plan focuses connected the tallness of the stem and the width of the base.

New to 2023 is Riedel Superleggero Restaurant glassware that intensifies the good eating nutrient and vino acquisition astatine a restaurant. In homage to the 50th Anniversary of Sommeliers, Riedel relaunches a caller premium machine-blown vino glass. 'Today young radical don't privation to enactment successful a mill to marque handmade glasses, truthful we had to accommodate with machines to marque our glassware,' said Riedel. 

Riedel Glassware

Size and signifier substance erstwhile drinking vino from a glass. Riedel offers a diamond-shaped vessel that angles retired dramatically earlier narrowing astatine the top. This creates an exceptionally wide aboveground that intensifies and enhances the silkiness of the vino connected the palate. Their glasses let the effect driven benignant of New World wines to shine.

The perfection of a machine-made solid compared to handmade tin beryllium seen successful the rim diameter and vessel of the glass. Riedel is known for their airy solid with a bladed stem and ample bowl. They are the lone 1 to marque the widest basal diameter ever produced by a machine.

The caller postulation has 8 antithetic grape varietal glasses. The smallest is for Riesling vino and Sauvignon Blanc. The Sauvignon Blanc solid is simply a interaction taller than the Riesling glass. Then determination is the Chardonnay glass, Pinot Noir solid and ample vessel Cabernet glass.

Maximilian Riedel

Riedel wineglasses connection oenophiles and novice vino drinkers 4 sensations. It begins with the bouquet of the grape varietal. When poured into the circumstantial varietal stemware, it delivers superior prime and strength of the wine's aroma.

Texture of the grape varietal should nutrient excitement to the palate. The close solid offers a mouthfeel of creamy, silky, watery oregon velvety. There should beryllium a balanced enactment betwixt the fruit, minerality, acidity and bitter components of a wine. Last the decorativeness should beryllium pleasant, harmonious and supply a agelong lasting aftertaste that produces a smile.

Fine Crystal Decanters - Photo Jill Weinlein

Riedel believes each wines - young and old, achromatic and red, adjacent sparkling tin beryllium enhanced erstwhile poured from the vessel into a decanter. They marque 8 antithetic decanters to springiness vino a accidental to bloom and attain a signifier of improvement that usually requires years of aging. 'We person elegant, analyzable handmade designs,' said Riedel.

Each of their decanters are a enactment of art. The Ultra is 1 of the astir elegant, and the Mamba decanter is the astir dramatic, looking a spot similar a solid cobra snake. 'Decanting a vino liberates the aromas,' said Riedel. 'It intensifies the fruitiness and rounds retired the texture.'

Decanting aged wines allows the vino to abstracted from immoderate deposits that person formed done the years, and drinking the vino from a Riedel solid heightens one's culinary acquisition and senses.