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Riedel comparisons – Masters of Wine hit it out

Posted in Wine, tagged , on 3 October 2010| 1 Comment »

Following the successful Riedel comparison on the 17th September there has been a few blogs and responses on the effectiveness of using Riedel Glasses for tasting wine.

Importantly there was one Master of Wine at the tasting, Dermot Nolan MW, who has been very sceptical. He was at the trade tasting surrounded by 85 wine industry professionals and offered a view on how Riedel glasses performed and vigorously defended the ISO glass. So I thought I’d offer a comparison of opinions – the other from another Master of Wine. Let me know what you think!

Firstly Dermot Nolan MW’s blog: http://dermotswineblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/serving-suggestions.html

Secondly Beverley Blanning MW: http://www.decanter.com/people-and-places/wine-articles/486207/how-many-do-you-really-need

Thirdly an article by John Stimpfig who gathered Top Sommeliers and Mark Bingley MW to do an extensive tasting of Riedel vs Riedel vs ISO http://www.aroundwine.co.uk/glass-advice-riedel-versus-riedel

And for people who’d like to hear Max Riedel themselves – a little interview by Lar Veale from sourgrapes.ie : http://www.sourgrapes.ie/2010/09/18/riedel-interview/

Jono

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Riedel Comparative Tasting in the New Convention Centre in Dublin

Posted in Wine, tagged on 18 September 2010| 2 Comments »

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

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