Cognac — unique drink with refined aroma and taste. Completely to enjoy cognac, suitable glasses are necessary. It is quite simple to pick up them.
Form and content
Of course, it is impossible to claim that consumption of really good cognac from improper ware will completely change its smell and taste, however it will be fully much more difficult to estimate them.
To the culture of the consumption of this divine drink already several hundreds of years. It should be noted that the little during this time changed. There are two types of glasses, one traditional, checked by many generations of fans of this drink, another — modern, created relatively recently.
Traditions against modern decisions
The traditional glass under cognac is called a snifter. Its name came from English the word snift that means "smell". Such glasses can be seen in movies and restaurants. Snifter has characteristic, almost spherical shape and a low leg, glass walls at the same time are considerably narrowed to the top part. Snifter comfortably lies in a palm, transferring to cognac all its heat. It promotes allocation of aroma of drink. Thanks to the narrowed walls, the aroma remains in a glass completely to estimate it, the snifter to a nose is enough to bring. It should be noted, the that much sustained, really old cognacs sometimes possess very strong smell which at high concentration in a snifter can hit rather hard in a nose, saddening the first acquaintance to drink. Glasses of this type successfully use for cognac since the sixteenth century. More modern glass — a tulip. It is the extended glass on a long leg, the form it reminds the semi-revealed flower. Such glass isn't heated in hands, but held by a graceful leg, accurately rotating. Cognac slowly spreads on walls, is saturated with oxygen and begins "give" actively the aroma which leaves a glass through a narrow neck. To choose the necessary glasses for cognac, think what approach to consumption of this drink is pleasant to you more. Sniftera do drinking of cognac by more intimate. Stroking of big-bellied glasses, their present suit - it is very sensual, thoughtful process. Tulips do consumption of this drink more graceful, aristocratic. Both types of glasses are good in the laconicism so you shouldn't buy the tulips which are excessively decorated, overloaded with details or snifter. It is desirable to get them sets. If there is an opportunity, it makes sense to get both types of glasses and to compare feelings at their use.