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Riedel has introduced jet-black
stemless glasses with two thimbrint indentations, one
on the side of the glass and one on the bottom. In
addition to concealing wines' grape, type, region,
producer and vintage, as is the case in normal blind
tastings, this glass hides wines' color, (white, red
or rosé), depth of color, clarity, brilliance,
and effervescence.
The Black Stemless Tasting
Glass was designed for wine drinkers who don't want
to form pre-conceived judgments prior to tasting,
who want to taste fully blind. Given that humans'
first sense in judging wine is sight (in fact,
blind-folded tasters have not infrequently confused
red and white wines), this glass removes all visual
cues. Beyond color, the black glass precludes
immediately judging, for example, a pale-red Barolo
as thin, or a deep purple pinot noir as rich. It is
indeed the world's first double-blind
glass.
The glass achieves its blackness
through the addition of manganese oxide; a little of
this metal turns glass purple, a little more turns it
pitch black. |
