I have bought Reidel o wine glasses in 4 sizes.
Basically
Pinot Noir/Nebbiolo
Chianti
Cab Sauv/Merlot
Shiraz

If I wanted to use one of the above 4 sizes, I'm wondering what would be
suit a Malbec. I'm guessing Cab Sauv - perhaps Shiraz?

Thanks.
Dee Dee

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:51:59 -0500, "Dee Dovey" >
wrote:

>I have bought Reidel o wine glasses in 4 sizes.
>Basically
>Pinot Noir/Nebbiolo
>Chianti
>Cab Sauv/Merlot
>Shiraz
>
>If I wanted to use one of the above 4 sizes, I'm wondering what would be
>suit a Malbec. I'm guessing Cab Sauv - perhaps Shiraz?
>
>Thanks.
>Dee Dee
>
This sort of thing gets in the way of enjoyment! I thought Cab at
first but think maybe on balance Shiraz. Personally I think it is all
too much refinement. :=)
Joseph Coulter
Joseph Coulter Cruises and Vacations
www.josephcoulter.com

On Feb 14, 6:51*pm, "Dee Dovey" > wrote:
> I have bought Reidel o wine glasses in 4 sizes.
> Basically
> Pinot Noir/Nebbiolo
> Chianti
> Cab Sauv/Merlot
> Shiraz
>
> If I wanted to use one of the above 4 sizes, I'm wondering what would be
> suit a Malbec. *I'm guessing Cab Sauv - perhaps Shiraz?
>
> Thanks.
> Dee Dee

I wouldn't stress over things like this. I keep Bordeaux, Burgundy,
Riesling/Rose, Chardonnay, and Champagne glasses handy, but drink lots
of other kinds of wine, and just guess what's closest. As Malbec is
historically a part of Bordeaux blends, I'd go with the CS/Merlot
glass in your case.
But really don't worry about it - I've drunk a lot of Bordeaux from
Burg stems (and vice versa).

"DaleW" > wrote in message
...
On Feb 14, 6:51 pm, "Dee Dovey" > wrote:
> I have bought Reidel o wine glasses in 4 sizes.
> Basically
> Pinot Noir/Nebbiolo
> Chianti
> Cab Sauv/Merlot
> Shiraz
>
> If I wanted to use one of the above 4 sizes, I'm wondering what would be
> suit a Malbec. I'm guessing Cab Sauv - perhaps Shiraz?
>
> Thanks.
> Dee Dee

I wouldn't stress over things like this. I keep Bordeaux, Burgundy,
Riesling/Rose, Chardonnay, and Champagne glasses handy, but drink lots
of other kinds of wine, and just guess what's closest. As Malbec is
historically a part of Bordeaux blends, I'd go with the CS/Merlot
glass in your case.
But really don't worry about it - I've drunk a lot of Bordeaux from
Burg stems (and vice versa).



Yes, I have plenty of other glasses, too - not stressing :-))

Great answer: "As Malbec is
historically a part of Bordeaux blends, I'd go with the CS/Merlot
glass in your case."

I'll go with that.
Thanks for your reply; my appreciation.
Dee Dee

> On Feb 14, 6:51 pm, "Dee Dovey" > wrote:
>> I have bought Reidel o wine glasses in 4 sizes.
>> Basically
>> Pinot Noir/Nebbiolo
>> Chianti
>> Cab Sauv/Merlot
>> Shiraz
>>
Are they better than Riedel glassses?

Anders

PS: Very different pronunciation... :-)

"Dee Dovey" > wrote in message ...
|I have bought Reidel o wine glasses in 4 sizes.
| Basically
| Pinot Noir/Nebbiolo
| Chianti
| Cab Sauv/Merlot
| Shiraz
|
| If I wanted to use one of the above 4 sizes, I'm wondering what would be
| suit a Malbec. I'm guessing Cab Sauv - perhaps Shiraz?
|
| Thanks.
| Dee Dee

Beyond which, don't you have the excellent opportunity to
find out for your own tastes? Grab a decent Malbec, fill each of the
four glasses with some of it, and taste them against each other.
You didn't say which or wherefrom Malbec; the good Argentinean
are considerably different (and to my tastes better) from the
French Malbecs (Cahors and whatever.) I love Malbec and am
very interested in what you come up with; my bet would be
the Shiraz if Argentine, cab if French. Do tell...

pavane

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:11:05 -0500, "pavane"
> wrote:

>
>"Dee Dovey" > wrote in message ...
>|I have bought Reidel o wine glasses in 4 sizes.
>| Basically
>| Pinot Noir/Nebbiolo
>| Chianti
>| Cab Sauv/Merlot
>| Shiraz
>|
>| If I wanted to use one of the above 4 sizes, I'm wondering what would be
>| suit a Malbec. I'm guessing Cab Sauv - perhaps Shiraz?
>|
>| Thanks.
>| Dee Dee
>
>Beyond which, don't you have the excellent opportunity to
>find out for your own tastes? Grab a decent Malbec, fill each of the
>four glasses with some of it, and taste them against each other.
>You didn't say which or wherefrom Malbec; the good Argentinean
>are considerably different (and to my tastes better) from the
>French Malbecs (Cahors and whatever.) I love Malbec and am
>very interested in what you come up with; my bet would be
>the Shiraz if Argentine, cab if French. Do tell...
>
>pavane
>
That is what I was thinking in my response. Malbec is a blending wine
France but where it is the primary grape it is bigger thean Cab Sauv.

For that matter Cab from CA and Bordeaux just don't seem to fit in the
same glass, as it were, either.

On 02/15/2010 01:35 PM, Joseph Coulter wrote:
[]
> That is what I was thinking in my response. Malbec is a blending wine
> France but where it is the primary grape it is bigger thean Cab Sauv.
>

Hi Joe,

I'm sure you know, but Malbec is used as a primary grape in many Cahors,
and also in the Loire (Touraine principally) where it is known as Cot.

Just to clear up a point...

> For that matter Cab from CA and Bordeaux just don't seem to fit in the
> same glass, as it were, either.
>

Never mix 'em.

-E

On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:26:10 +0100, Emery Davis
> wrote:

>On 02/15/2010 01:35 PM, Joseph Coulter wrote:
>[]
>> That is what I was thinking in my response. Malbec is a blending wine
>> France but where it is the primary grape it is bigger thean Cab Sauv.
>>
>
>Hi Joe,
>
>I'm sure you know, but Malbec is used as a primary grape in many Cahors,
>and also in the Loire (Touraine principally) where it is known as Cot.
>
>Just to clear up a point...
>
>> For that matter Cab from CA and Bordeaux just don't seem to fit in the
>> same glass, as it were, either.
>>
>
>Never mix 'em.
>
>-E
OOPS, that is what I meant in "where it is the primary" and of course
I have this perception that there is a huge difference in Cahors and
Touraine wines made from Malbec/Cot- when last did you hear of the
black wines of Tours?

On 02/15/2010 03:17 PM, Joseph Coulter wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:26:10 +0100, Emery Davis
> > wrote:
>
>> On 02/15/2010 01:35 PM, Joseph Coulter wrote:
>> []
>>> That is what I was thinking in my response. Malbec is a blending wine
>>> France but where it is the primary grape it is bigger thean Cab Sauv.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> I'm sure you know, but Malbec is used as a primary grape in many Cahors,
>> and also in the Loire (Touraine principally) where it is known as Cot.
>>
>> Just to clear up a point...
>>
>>> For that matter Cab from CA and Bordeaux just don't seem to fit in the
>>> same glass, as it were, either.
>>>
>>
>> Never mix 'em.
>>
>> -E
> OOPS, that is what I meant in "where it is the primary" and of course
> I have this perception that there is a huge difference in Cahors and
> Touraine wines made from Malbec/Cot- when last did you hear of the
> black wines of Tours?

I like it: "The Black Wine of Tours." Hehe. (Sorry for the misread.)

-E

"pavane" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Dee Dovey" > wrote in message
> ...
> |I have bought Reidel o wine glasses in 4 sizes.
> | Basically
> | Pinot Noir/Nebbiolo
> | Chianti
> | Cab Sauv/Merlot
> | Shiraz
> |
> | If I wanted to use one of the above 4 sizes, I'm wondering what would be
> | suit a Malbec. I'm guessing Cab Sauv - perhaps Shiraz?
> |
> | Thanks.
> | Dee Dee
>
> Beyond which, don't you have the excellent opportunity to
> find out for your own tastes? Grab a decent Malbec, fill each of the
> four glasses with some of it, and taste them against each other.
> You didn't say which or wherefrom Malbec; the good Argentinean
> are considerably different (and to my tastes better) from the
> French Malbecs (Cahors and whatever.) I love Malbec and am
> very interested in what you come up with; my bet would be
> the Shiraz if Argentine, cab if French. Do tell...
>
> pavane
>

Thanks for the suggestion. Drinking the last Malbec I had, from Argentina,
I will wait until I purchase the next bottle to do the test.

Looking in the kitchen at the unwashed glasses, I see that I must have used
a 'generic' wine glass; hence my query to this list.

Thanks again. Good advice.
Dee Dee

Dee wrote on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:58:52 -0500:


> "pavane" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> "Dee Dovey" > wrote in message
>> ...
> |> I have bought Reidel o wine glasses in 4 sizes.
> |> Basically
> |> Pinot Noir/Nebbiolo
> |> Chianti
> |> Cab Sauv/Merlot
> |> Shiraz
> |> |> If I wanted to use one of the above 4 sizes, I'm wondering |>
> what would be suit a Malbec. I'm guessing Cab Sauv -
> |> perhaps Shiraz?
> |> |> Thanks.
> |> Dee Dee
>>
>> Beyond which, don't you have the excellent opportunity to
>> find out for your own tastes? Grab a decent Malbec, fill
>> each of the four glasses with some of it, and taste them
>> against each other. You didn't say which or wherefrom Malbec;
>> the good Argentinean are considerably different (and to my
>> tastes better) from the French Malbecs (Cahors and whatever.)
>> I love Malbec and am very interested in what you come up
>> with; my bet would be the Shiraz if Argentine, cab if French.
>> Do tell...
>>
>> pavane
>>
> Thanks for the suggestion. Drinking the last Malbec I had,
> from Argentina, I will wait until I purchase the next bottle
> to do the test.

> Looking in the kitchen at the unwashed glasses, I see that I
> must have used a 'generic' wine glass; hence my query to this list.

I would endorse the "generic" wine glass for drinking with meals and I
do like thin, undistorted glasses but I find the two sizes that I have,
6 oz and 5 oz, are entirely adequate, apart from some small glasses for
dessert wines like sherry. I don't always worry about which size I use
but I will see to it that all guests have the same size. I admit that I
do sometimes drink red wines to enjoy by themselves and I have a few 14
oz glasses to have a large air space above the wine to savor the flavor.

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

On 15/02/2010 04:11, pavane wrote:

> Beyond which, don't you have the excellent opportunity to
> find out for your own tastes? Grab a decent Malbec, fill each of the
> four glasses with some of it, and taste them against each other.

And if I really cared about matching glasses and wine, I'd do that for
every wine I drank irrespective of the names Riedel happen to slap on
the glasses. I find impossible to believe that the Bordeaux glass or
Cab Sauv glass is the best for ALL Bordeaux and Cab Sauv. The flavours
and aromatics can be so different in different examples.

(In fact I find thw whole Riedel glass-matching thing difficult to
believe too, but that is another story.)

Dee Dovey beliebte zu schreiben :
> I have bought Reidel o wine glasses in 4 sizes.

Just for the record:

The correct spelling is "Riedel", pronounced "reedle".

Helmut
--
Nach dera Zei'n kimmt nix mehr

"Helmut P. Einfalt" > wrote:

> Dee Dovey beliebte zu schreiben :

>> I have bought Reidel o wine glasses in 4 sizes.

> Just for the record:
>
> The correct spelling is "Riedel", pronounced "reedle".

Just in analogy to "riesling" pronounced "reezling".

But "ei" for "ie" in German words is a rather common typo among
native English speakers (is that correct?).

M.

"Michael Pronay" wrote ....................
>
>>
>> The correct spelling is "Riedel", pronounced "reedle".
>
> Just in analogy to "riesling" pronounced "reezling".
>
> But "ei" for "ie" in German words is a rather common typo among
> native English speakers (is that correct?).
>



Only those people writing *American* English!!!!!!! ;-)

Those of us who speak / write proper English have no such problem.

StH

"st.helier" > wrote:

>>> The correct spelling is "Riedel", pronounced "reedle".

>> Just in analogy to "riesling" pronounced "reezling".
>>
>> But "ei" for "ie" in German words is a rather common typo among
>> native English speakers (is that correct?).

> Only those people writing *American* English!!!!!!! ;-)

Ooops - sorry, didn't realize that!

> Those of us who speak / write proper English have no such
> problem.

I beg your pardon, I stand corrected.

M.

On 2/16/10 5:50 AM, Michael Pronay wrote:
> > wrote:
>
>>>> The correct spelling is "Riedel", pronounced "reedle".
>
>>> Just in analogy to "riesling" pronounced "reezling".
>>>
>>> But "ei" for "ie" in German words is a rather common typo among
>>> native English speakers (is that correct?).
>
>> Only those people writing *American* English!!!!!!! ;-)
>
> Ooops - sorry, didn't realize that!
>
>> Those of us who speak / write proper English have no such
>> problem.
>
> I beg your pardon, I stand corrected.
>
> M.

Michael,
I've always found the ie/ei transposition baffling, myself. Students
of English usually are drilled with the rubric: "i before e except after
c" because ie is in fact more common than ei.

Oh, well...
Mark Lipton

--
alt.food.wine FAQ: http://winefaq.cwdjr.net

"Michael Pronay" wrote .......
>
>>>> The correct spelling is "Riedel", pronounced "reedle".
>
>>> Just in analogy to "riesling" pronounced "reezling".
>>>
>>> But "ei" for "ie" in German words is a rather common typo among
>>> native English speakers (is that correct?).
>
>> Only those people writing *American* English!!!!!!! ;-)
>
> Ooops - sorry, didn't realize that!
^^^^^^

You do realise that *realize* is another Americanism - and not *proper*
English???

;-)))

st.h