So Jono worked hard all day at the new Convention Centre at Dublin Docklands yesterday and it was all worth it cause the Riedel comparative tasting was fab! A comparative tasting is where you taste the same wine out of lots of different glasses and Mr Maximillian Riedel proves that they all taste and smell much better if you drink them out of the “right” glass i.e. Chardonnay glass for Chardonnay, Pinot glass for Pinot etc. What Jono doesn’t know is that I now want lots of new glasses to fit on our already full shelf… more success than he bargained for! I think it was the rest of the room he was trying to sell fancy Austrian glassware to.
Best tip of the night for me was to dry your decanter with your hairdryer. Why didn’t I think of this before(maybe cause I mostly make Jono wash it)? No more stuffing cloths in and out of it and trying to balance it upside down on a spiky thing. Maybe keep it on the cool setting though incase you crack your precious decanter.
I think Jono will probably have something much more technical and wine buff like to say about the whole thing later.
Julie
Jono & Jules do food & wine 
I like it! The honest comments are good. Also hints like drying the decanter with a hair dryer. Did you also learn how to get rid of the milky film in the decanter?
Riedel have a glass cleaner that you can buy in a tiny tub but we find that Milton or sterradent (denture cleaning tablets) bring it up shiny.