Champagne stemware

A sparkling wine glass is a drinking glass which is used specifically for sparkling wines as champagne, prosecco or champagne. There are these glasses in various forms.

Champagne Tulip

Under a sparkling Tulip refers usually a high, downward tapered sparkling wine glass, usually with a short stem. The term alludes to the relatively high, narrow, and thus reminiscent of a tulip shape of the glass. Usually, this glass holds 15 centilitres. This is meant for Champagne or other sparkling wines. In her well -prepared with champagne cocktails and appetizers are served.

Champagne Flute

As the creator of this champagne glasses, which appeared in France around 1800, Dom Perignon is true. The calyx of a sparkling wine flute is raised and slightly everted rim. The long arm of the sparkling wine tulip is to prevent the sparkling heated by contact with the hand of the person drinking. For this reason, you should raise as white wine glasses exclusively on a stick, or even at the bottom of the glass sparkling wine tulips. In many cases, other forms of glass, for example, the sparkling wine tulip, also referred to as a flute.

Similarities of tulip and flute

Due to the elongated shape and narrow opening of both glass shapes may be for a carbonic acid does not evaporate as quickly; on the other hand you may very well consider the effervescence of champagne, a quality feature. The fine sparkling pearls are formed in tiny rough spots in the glass, the so-called Moussierpunkten. Some glass manufacturers are these bumps on purpose in sparkling wine glasses one - occasionally even small basalt stones are melted down into the bottom of the glasses. This acts much like rice grains, which are given as habit before pouring into a wheat beer glass to enhance the bubbles artificially. The physicist Gérard Liger Belair engaged in further detail with the physical effects of the generation of bubbles in a champagne glass by microscopic dust particles.

Such flutes are also used in detergent - tests to investigate the flow and drying behavior of glasses.

Sparkling wine cup

A sparkling wine cup sparkling wine or champagne cup, is not narrowly drawn up like the sparkling wine flute or tulip. It forms a shallow dish shape with a slender stalk. The shape is much wider than high. Sparkling shells were until the 1960s and 1970s, very popular. For various reasons, they are now hardly sold and mostly replaced by high sparkling wine glasses.