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How to choose a glass for drinking red wine in a hotel?

To taste mellow wine, you must have a suitable wine glass to give full play to the color, aroma and taste of wine. Although wine glasses have various shapes, their main function is to keep the aroma of wine, so that the wine can rotate in the cup and fully combine with the air. Therefore, the standard cup shape is the goblet of the lower abdomen, which is the so-called tulip cup, which is conducive to the aroma gathering above the cup. High feet are used to hold the glass in hand to prevent the hand from touching the belly of the glass and affecting the wine temperature. Wine glasses are divided into red wine glasses, white wine glasses and champagne wine glasses. There are Bordeaux wine glasses, Burgundy wine glasses, Rhine wine glasses, Shirley wine glasses and so on. Among the red wine cups, the special Bordeaux wine cup has a narrow caliber, and its capacity is about 170CC. Burgundy red wine glasses are tulip cups with wide bottoms. In the white wine cup, the waist of the Burgundy-shaped cup is slightly larger than that of the red wine, which is full; Another special glass of sherry is a small glass with a capacity of about 50CC. To appreciate sparkling wine, you can choose a champagne glass with a small caliber and a slender body and watch the bubbles rise slowly; Or you can choose a shallow cup with a wider caliber. People who pay attention to taste often insist on using different special cups to match different flavors of wine. Don't want to go to great trouble, just have a standard tulip cup as a universal cup, and the ideal cup width is 4.6 cm. Although there are many kinds of wine glasses, there is still a basic principle of * * *: 1. Colorless and transparent; 2. It is best not to decorate the belly of the cup, so as to enjoy the true color of the wine; 3. The material should not be too thick, so as not to affect the feel when tasting. In addition, the grape cups should be cleaned immediately after use. Wash with mild detergent first, then rinse with hot water, and finally dry with a dry cloth without cotton wool. You can hang it upside down on the cup holder, or you can put the cup mouth up to avoid accumulating stuffy smell, and then store it in the wine cabinet.