Georg Riedel

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January 8, 1934

A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins.

horse wine needs

I would say everyone who tastes wines in different-shaped glasses would believe they are actually different wines. And out of those, you can pick your preference, which proves that one shape elevates the components of the wine better than another, of course, a glass cannot change a wine from a bad wine to a good wine. We are not responsible for miracles.

We belong to the category of mammals and have a brain. We're naturally drawn to sucrose. The sweeter something is, the more we like it.

We’re in charge of delivering the aromas and then the flavors to the palate, the perception is triggered through the fact that the glasses deliver liquid to different parts of your palate.

What we do is – by trial and error, with the help of the winemaker – fine-tune the shape to the expression he likes, we feel like architects. An architect has his own vision, but at the end of the day it’s the customer who tells him how his house or his apartment will be built.

From there, you could, step by step, be more refined and be more interested, if you fall in love with a varietal, maybe it’s time to move on to a varietal-specific glass.

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