Luxist

Maximilian began the tasting with the kinds of things you'd expect a wine glass maker to say: "Good wine can be shown better in the right glass," and that the glass is "the loudspeaker for fine wine." But did you know they conducted a blind tasting where wine connoisseurs had trouble telling the difference between an $80 bottle of wine and boxed wine, simply due to the glass? The shape of the glass effects the whole umami, or mouthfeel. 22/07/09