Riedel Wine Glass Class TODOTC.com To Do in the Twin Cities Wine Tasting Riedel Wine Glass Class Date: Nov 13, 2024 Northloop Wine & Spirits 218 N Washington Ave Mpls, MN 55401 Phone: (612) 338-5393 www.NorthLoopWine.com

Riedel Wine Glass Class

If you play tennis, baseball. Softball. Ski, bike, drink… you know using great brands give you at totally different experience than an also ran. Walk around great players in any sport and you will find only a few brand names used by the greatest in the industry.

I asked a winery owner why he picks his grapes at 2AM closest to the full moon when the grapes are ready. His answer was it makes my wines 1% better. Our juice extraction makes our wines 1% better, our sorting makes our wines 1% better, our aging process makes our wines 1% better and sooner or later it is found that our wines are better than others.

If you are just drinking wine or other beverages, you need not worry about Riedel glasses. But if you want to have a great wine experience you need a special glass.

When I first heard this ten years ago, I called BULL! And then I was promptly proved wrong.  Riedel is the premier name in wine/beverage glasses. Reidle designs glasses for a specific beverage to be drank in.

Anyone that is into wine knows about Riedel glasses. And Riedel is pronounced REEDLE rhymes with NEEDLE.  Our local Riedel AMBASSSDOR is Joel Nelson of The Wine Company, a friend. Just call him Ambassador Joel next time you see him.

Joel ran the class North Loop Wine and Spirits sponsored for $100 each and you got to take home four Riedel glasses and drink some wine.

Many in the room were skeptics but were there to see. Well, that ended just after the introduction. When Joel had us pour the same Chardonay wine into two different Riedel glasses and smell the wine. In one glass we smell nothing the other had the full bouquet of the Chardonnay. OK, you have our attention.

Then Joel had us pour his red wine in the same two glasses. The aroma changed to the other glass. Yep, the glasses you drink from makes a difference.

Most wine should be swirled in the glass to add some air and put the Flavonoids into the air so our number one taste organ, our nose, can sense the subtleties. Hell, there could be an entire class on how to swirl.  But add another glass with rolling ridges on the inside so the wine instead of swirling is like going over a river of rocks up & down on the inside of the glass that has little humps to drive more air in the wine. NOW smell the wine, it has a totally new taste.

We all tasted four wines in four different Riedel glasses we took home for $100. Yes, it was expensive. But for someone who drinks wine most nights it was worth it. Thanks to Ambassador Joel, North Loop and their team for providing such a great educational opportunity.

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