| Avid wine drinkers know that you cannot just | | | | A champagne flute also helps facilitate the natural |
| poor a fine wine into any old glass. Surface area | | | | phenomenon of nucleation. This process in a flute |
| of the wine out of the bottle, the temperature of | | | | helps form the bubbles that you see. Too much |
| your hand and even the shape of glass are all | | | | of it will cause carbonation to go away quickly. A |
| factors that affect how a wine will taste and feel | | | | flute provides a smoother surface area inside the |
| in the drinker's mouth. This article will give the | | | | glass so that there can be increased bubble |
| reader a brief overview of why it is important to | | | | texture in the drinker's mouth. |
| have a proper champagne flute to drink fine | | | | Flutes come in a variety of styles and designs |
| champagne from as opposed to other wine | | | | however, they all follow the same thin and narrow |
| glasses or glass wear. | | | | overall construction for the purposes described |
| What is a champagne flute? | | | | above. Some come etched or printed with ornate |
| A flute is a type of stemware used for drinking | | | | designs and can be purchased as single, double or |
| wine or other sparkling drinks. The stem is the | | | | in multiple glass sets. A single flute can retail |
| long thin piece of glass that separates the base of | | | | anywhere from a few dollars for a plastic version |
| the glass from the bowl that holds the liquid. The | | | | to around 100 dollars for a crystal version. Prices |
| shape of this glass resembles a typical wine glass | | | | can go up from there if purchasing a glass with |
| or it may have a trumpet shape or is otherwise | | | | gold or silver plating around the rim or other |
| very narrow. The stem on the glass has a very | | | | ornate features. |
| specific purpose of allowing the drinker to hold the | | | | Therefore, the next time someone tells you that |
| glass without touching the bowl. This is done to | | | | wine in any glass will taste the same; you can tell |
| avoid heating the wine up with the warmth of | | | | them how wrong they are. Champagne flutes help |
| hand. The design of the bowl also has a very | | | | necessitate the environment in which wine tastes |
| specific job. When wine is poured into a glass, it | | | | and feels the best. Other glasses are suitable |
| begins to lose carbonation. The more surface area | | | | however, they can detract from a fine wine by |
| that is exposed, the faster the wine loses its | | | | simply the way they are constructed. More |
| carbonation and the flatter tasting it becomes. | | | | economical champagne coinsures can find plastic |
| This is the reason that a flute bowl is so narrow, | | | | champagne flutes for their needs or if you are a |
| to maintain carbonation. Champagne flutes | | | | big spender there are a variety of crystal |
| accomplish this much better than a champagne | | | | champagne flutes that can have ornate designs or |
| coupe or saucer, which exposes the wine to a | | | | gold and silver plated accents to impress your |
| much greater amount of surface area. | | | | dinner crowd. |