The shape of a glass plays a role in how you perceive wine as explained by some. Some of your taste buds detect salty flavors, other bitter ones. The contours of a glass can project liquid to different tongue zones. Champagne flutes send it to the front where sweet and sour tastes tingle, broad red-wine glasses to the back where astringent flavors linger. Glasses affect the aroma too: fill a small glass to the brim and you'll choke the bouquet but swirl a little wine in a big glass and the smell is freed then channeled to your nose. Different wines benefit from different glassware - a delicate white wine would just get lost in a vast glass - but as a rule pour only half full.
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