| One of the reasons you would want to display | | | | particularly when imbibing white or chilled wine. |
| your expensive wine glasses or goblets on a wine | | | | Many people think that the reason you sip wine in |
| glass shelf is because the best crystal has no | | | | this manner is because by holding the glass by it's |
| business being put away in a storage cabinet. | | | | bowl, your body heat will warm up the wine. In |
| Crystal is the highest quality that you can make | | | | reality, your body heat isn't transferred to the |
| wine glasses from. | | | | glass fast enough to make any noticeable |
| The advantage of such glass is mostly aesthetic | | | | difference. The air that surrounds the wine |
| in nature, because it has a higher index of | | | | warms it up far faster than your hand would. |
| refraction than regular glass does. This changes | | | | Wine drinkers like to examine the wine before |
| the way that light bends as it passes through the | | | | they drink it to better determine the color and |
| glass. Also, the glass is heavier because of the | | | | clarity of it. |
| lead that's in the crystal matrix. So, beautiful | | | | Therefore, for those who love wine, displaying |
| 'crystal' glasses are something that's beautiful to | | | | your glasses or goblets on a beautiful shelf and |
| display. If you own crystal glasses, you'll want to | | | | making them so that they're highly available for |
| display them in a fine way. | | | | use can be a good selling point as to why you'd |
| Traditionally, a wine glass is held in the "proper" | | | | wish to purchase a wine glass shelf. |
| way by grasping it delicately by the stem, | | | | |