Tequila Tasting Glasses
Tequila is one of the fastest growing spirits in the marketplace today. As with fine wine, tequila needs to be sipped and enjoyed, and served at the proper temperature. Most people consider the shot glass as the correct vessel for drinking tequila, but the people at Austria’s Riedel Glass Company have come up with a tequila connoisseurs tasting glass.
Riedel recently introduced a 6 3/4 oz Tequila glass. The shape of the glass gives tasters the optimal effect of the smell and taste of the tequila they are drinking. The glasses have a thin rim that are cut and polished to Riedel’s high standards. This makes the tequila flow easily on to the tongue to enhance the flavor of the tequila. Riedel reports that the elegant slender glass has a tall stem that is meant to lift fine tequila to the level it deserves, to give it the appreciation and respect of which it is worthy.
Designated the official glass by the Consejo Regulador del Tequila, it holds the finest Reposados, Anejos and Reservas de Casa Tequilas. Part of Riedel’s Overture collection, this elegant and slender glass was developed at two workshops led by George Riedel and attended by over two dozen Tequila producers and officials who, after rounds of tasting, found this glass to be the best suitable shape.
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