14 gifts for the perfect home bar (+ promo code)
Purchases / / December 19, 2019
The beverage is selected in accordance with their tastes. But the dishes do not have to choose: for each type of alcohol fixed its form glasses. And this is not fiction for marketers to increase sales, but a necessity: sommeliers and tasters have long understood that the shape of the glass depends on the taste.
A glass of red wine Syrah
Each type of wine and its ways of presenting his glass. In addition, everyone likes a type of wine. What choice do if you do not know the tastes of the person who are looking for a gift? Bottle of dry red wine (a classic), and here is a glass.
Form of a glass of universality, namely its modification is used to supply the different wines. A long leg need to drink is not heated by the heat of hands.
Give with wines: Merlot, Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, Tempranillo, Shiraz, Chianti.
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A glass of red wine Bordeaux
The problem of the correct glass is typically to hide alcohol alcoholic taste and discover the taste of the wine itself. An ulterior motive for each type of wine invented its own form. Complex bouquet of red wine with rich shades are best revealed by the glass Bordeaux.
The beveled edge of the glass directs the wine at the throat at those receptors language that best perceive major beverage notes.
Give with wines: pinot noir, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Nebbiolo, Barolo, Barbaresco.
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White wine glass Riesling
Glasses of white slightly less than for red, the wine could not heat up until it will try. There is a simple rule: light white wine is poured into a glass of Riesling, more dark and intense - in glasses with a wide base.
By the way, the best wine glasses have no decorations and spraying. Forget about the gold rim and embossed walls. Through the thin glass cup lovers looking at the drink, estimate its color and the absence of impurities.
Give with wines: Riesling, Pinot Grigio, Verde, Chenin Blanc, Grüner Veltliner.
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A glass of white wine Sauvignon Blanc
Just this glass is for rich white wines with a touch of honey, which have long kept.
If you do not feel the difference in the flavors of different wines, most of all, you just did not try to drink it out of the right glasses. Sommelier selected form for each type of wine and grapes, and therefore can enjoy the best combination. Well, because everything has already been chosen for us, it makes sense to heed the recommendations of the pros and do not spoil the wine incorrect feeding.
Give with wines: Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Muscat.
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Glasses for whiskey
Strong alcohol is also full of pleasant surprises, ie flavors.
A glass of whiskey needs no introduction, as this form reveals all the properties of the beverage. It allows even strong alcohol taste long and thoughtfully.
Give whiskey, of course.
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Glasses of cognac
If the wine is drunk from glasses with a high foot, so as not to change the temperature of the drink, the brandy everything is exactly the opposite. Glass need to warm in your hand and try to feel all the notes.
The original shape of these glasses, first attracted attention to them, and secondly, corresponds to traditions of cognac tasting right, and in the third, allowing a little stir a drink at use.
Give cognac, brandy, liqueurs.
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Martini glass
Martini bottle - almost classic gifts, glass will be a logical addition.
In addition, in a martini glass, you can pour some cocktails. Useful for fans to mix something refreshing and challenging.
Give a martini and ingredients for cocktails.
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Decanter for wine
This device, which reveals the aroma of wine. Decanter is to show what is the difference between a rich, mellow wine and all other drinks. The first thing that opens the wine - not the taste and aroma.
Decanter - a vessel in which the guilt let "breathe" before serving, open all the layers and flavors. That is, if you bring a good bottle of wine as a gift, it makes no sense to immediately pour it into glasses. First, pour it into a decanter. Then everything will turn out.
Give any seasoned wine.
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A glass of sparkling wine
The elongated shape of the high glass retains the main charm of sparkling wines - those bubbles that are nice to look at and pleasant to drink.
Sometimes they use and wide glasses, but they immediately fly away gas for champagne. The charm is lost. Sweet varieties is still allowed, but dry champagne can be cast only in tall glasses.
Give dry sparkling wines, brut.
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A glass of beer
Three-dimensional glasses leg displace ordinary beer glasses.
This change is linked with all the same requirements to preserve the temperature of the beverage. Beer should be cool, and therefore do not need to bow mug.
To give any kind of beer so dark and light.
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Wine Thermometer
Serve the wine is necessary at a certain temperature. It affects the taste of the drink is not less than the shape of the glass from which the wine is drunk. Maybe someone and be able to determine the extent to which cooled wine at the touch of a bottle. But usually by eye point of not prikinesh. For this and needed bottle thermometer.
Moisture-proof electronic sensor is worn directly on the bottle and measures the temperature within a few minutes. Remember that the wine in the glass warms up more, so before applying it must be supercooled to a couple of degrees.
Tip for using the thermometer:
Wine | feed temperature, ° C |
Sparkling wine | 5 |
Young white wine | 7 |
Young red wine | 8 |
Aged white wine | 8–10 |
Aged red wine | 12–13 |
Strong red wine | 15–17 |
liqueur wine | 10–12 |
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revealer
Take the tube - is also an art. After all, you need to do everything smoothly, do not shake the bottle (not to raise pellet and shake wine). And you can not even penetrate through the cork to its pieces do not fall into the wine and not spoil its taste and appearance.
This wonderful corkscrew is called Anna. And he just turns wine filing process in art.
Give wine and without wine.
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Cork-mist eliminators
When the original cork is defeated, the question arises: what to preserve the aroma and taste of the wine when the next portion of the bottle razolyut more long time? To the aid of a special plug.
With them not a drop spilled by. A more convenient plug closes the cap and the bottle quietly waiting in the wings.
Give any drinks.
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Decanter in the bag
Not everyone can be brought as a present something in okoloalkogolnuyu theme. This does not mean that other beverages should be ignored.
This carafe with insulating neoprene cover. It comes in handy when you need to keep the temperature of the drink, and put on the table thermos impossible.
Give a favorite with tea, coffee, juice, lemonade, mineral water.
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