Shut Up and Drink It

We love to entertain and entertaining, of course, goes hand in hand with wine. We don't discriminate between white and red and believe that they each compliment different foods, seasons and moods. In the summer, for example, we usually gravitate towards a buttery or crisp white that will refresh and invigorate, while in the winter, a comforting and rich red brings a much needed warmth to a dark and gloomy evening. Red meat is enhanced by a heavy red while white meat and seafood play better with a white.

We weren't always such equal opportunity drinkers, however. When we first got turned into wine, we drank only red and scoffed at white drinkers because they obviously didn't know the first thing about wine. That was also when we thought that sharing one bottle of $5 wine between the two of us was going balls out so that just shows you that we didn't know nothing about anything.

The one thing that hasn't changed about us, however, is our insistence upon using the right glass for the right beverage. Just as white and red wines each enhance different foods and situations, using a glass designed for the particular wine, brings out the best in them. Red wine glasses tend to have wide and round bowls that help the drinker bring more air into the wine. This helps to mellow out the flavors and smooth out the tannins that generally exist in red wine. In contrast, white wine glasses tend to have smaller mouths to decrease the rate of oxidation in order to keep the wine beautifully clean and crisp.

Our friends are terrified about being yelled at for a potential incorrect choice of glassware at our house, so they very wisely ask us each time what they should use. Well, they can tease us all they want for being crazy and anal as we have only their best interests in mind. It's all about having the right tools to do the job after all.