Out of 12 completely different glass shapes, together with specialised Champagne glasses and the common flute, Riedel’s Veloce Riesling glass was voted as probably the most most popular glass by English producers from three areas for his or her glowing wines, introduced the Austrian glassware producer.
Seeking one of the best English glowing glass
Final week, 25 wine producers from three of the UK’s major glowing wine-producing areas had been invited to attend three Riedel workshops for comparative tastings of 12 completely different glass shapes (see beneath) from the glassmaker’s current product vary.
- Riedel Stemless Wings Riesling Glass
- Riedel Veritas Pinot Noir/Nebbiolo/Rosé Champagne Glass
- Riedel Efficiency Riesling Glass
- Riedel Vinum Classic Champagne Glass
- Riedel Efficiency Pinot Noir Glass
- Riedel Winewings Champagne Wine Glass
- Riedel Veloce Riesling Glass
- Riedel Efficiency Champagne Glass
- Riedel Wine Pleasant Purple Wine Glass
- Riedel Veloce Champagne Wine Glass
- Riedel Veritas Champagne Wine Glass
- Champagne flute (the ‘Joker’ glass)
The 12-strong lineup was hand-picked by Riedel based mostly on the outcomes of comparable workshops held with worldwide glowing producers, together with these from famed Champagne homes and Tasmania, defined Maximilian J Riedel, Eleventh-generation CEO and president of the family-owned glassware producer, who carried out all three English glowing workshops in Hampshire, Kent and Sussex.
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Throughout 4 rounds of tasting at every workshop, representatives of 25 English wineries and commerce specialists voted for his or her favoured glass shapes that finest introduced their native sparklers.
The tasting workshop: How did it work?
Every workshop started with all 12 glass shapes (product names not given) on the first spherical of tasting. In the course of the first three rounds, individuals had been to vote for his or her most popular glasses to maintain, leaving out their three least favorite glasses. They may solely select one favorite glass within the final spherical. The ultimate winner was the glass form that had the best variety of whole votes all through all 4 rounds.
On the Hampshire workshop, hosted at Exton Park Winery, the collaborating producers had been served a complete of 4 glowing wines sourced regionally, chosen with none prior standards given by Riedel.
‘(The winner) has to work for the entire kinds,’ defined Maximilian.
The Hampshire workshop wine checklist
Spherical 1: Exton Park, RB32 NV
Spherical 2: Louis Pommery England NV
Spherical 3: The Grange, Basic NV
Spherical 4: Hattingley Valley, Basic Reserve NV
The Stemless Wings Riesling Glass (see above, left), the Vinum Classic Champagne Glass (center) and the Champagne flute (proper). Credit score: Riedel
In the course of the first spherical, individuals first dominated out the Stemless Wings Riesling Glass (see above), the Vinum Classic Champagne Glass and the widespread Champagne flute.
The Efficiency Champagne Glass (left), the Wine Pleasant Purple Wine Glass (center) and the Veloce Champagne Wine Glass (proper). Credit score: Riedel
The Efficiency Champagne Glass, the Wine Pleasant Purple Wine Glass and the Veloce Champagne Wine Glass had been voted out within the second spherical.
The Veritas Pinot Noir/Nebbiolo/Rosé Champagne Glass (left), the Efficiency Pinot Noir Glass (center) and the Efficiency Riesling Glass (proper). Credit score: Riedel
By an in depth vote after the third spherical, tasters dismissed the Veritas Pinot Noir/Nebbiolo/Rosé Champagne Glass, the Efficiency Pinot Noir Glass and the Efficiency Riesling Glass.
Maximilian admitted that the early exit of Veritas Pinot Noir/Nebbiolo/Rosé Champagne Glass was a shock because it was his glass of alternative for English glowing rosés. The Efficiency Riesling Glass, alternatively, attracted a substantial variety of votes till this spherical.
The outcomes
The Winewings Champagne Wine Glass (left), the Veloce Riesling Glass (center) and the Veritas Champagne Wine Glass (proper). Credit score: Riedel
The final spherical is a alternative amongst three glasses; the Winewings Champagne Wine Glass, the Veloce Riesling Glass and the Veritas Champagne Wine Glass.
Extra individuals opted for the Winewings Champagne Wine Glass for the linear, mineral Hattingley Valley Basic Reserve NV. The glass contains a flat backside and a waved inwards-inclined rim.
Nonetheless, with probably the most whole votes, Riedel’s Veloce Riesling Glass got here out as the ultimate winner from the Hampshire workshop.
The identical glass form additionally merited probably the most votes from producers in Kent and Sussex, introduced Riedel, making it the common winner of the most recent analysis for English glowing wine glass.
‘My favorite glass form (from this tasting) was the Veloce Riesling Glass when tasting Exton Park Brut,’ mentioned Corinne Seely, wine director of Exton Park, the place the Hampshire workshop was held.
‘The bubbles had been very effective, the physique full with that recognisable saltiness and the glass revealed the flavours superbly leaving a improbable roundness on the finish of the mouth.’
Maximilian agreed that producers had chosen a glass form that ‘reveals the fruit, the freshness, and the complexity of those nice (English) wines at their best possible’.
This diamond-shaped glass comes from Riedel’s state-of-the-art, machine-made Veloce collection which is ‘as effective and as gentle and as balanced as a hand-made glass’, because the glassware producer put it.
The Riesling glass of the collection is designed to steadiness ‘the excessive acidity and residual sugar of fruit-forward white wines’, in addition to ‘the recent characters and excessive mineral parts, emphasising fruit aromas’, in response to Riedel’s product description.
The runner-up on the Hampshire workshop by whole votes was the Veritas Champagne Wine Glass. The Efficiency Riesling Glass and once more the Veritas Champagne Wine Glass had been the second selections for producers in Kent and Sussex.
The analysis goes on
This isn’t Riedel’s first try and establish one of the best glass form for English glowing wines. In September 2011, the Tenth-generation proprietor Georg Riedel, father of Maximilian, hosted a tasting workshop on the Hush Heath Property (producer of Balfour Rosé). The successful glass form then was the Sommelier Classic Champagne Glass.
In a earlier interview with Decanter, Maximilian Riedel said his dedication to make the ‘one-dimensional’ Champagne flute out of date as the favored glass for fizz prevents drinkers from appreciating the total vary of aromas and style profiles.
‘(The English glowing wine workshop) is one thing we’ve got wished to work on ever since and ten years later, in November 2021, we began the dialog once more,’ defined the glass maker. ‘Initially, it was simply with Kent however by the tip of 2022 Hampshire and Sussex had been additionally on board, together with WineGB.’
Maximilian advised decanter.com that he was ‘proud to assist English glowing wines with a particular Riedel glass’.
“I’ve longed admired English glowing wines since I made my first winery visits right here virtually ten years in the past. In that point, I’ve seen the trade develop and the wine develop to a very internationally excessive customary in order that it’s amongst the easiest glowing wines on the earth.’
