1934 What Shall We Drink by Magnus Bredenbek

166 What Shall We Drink? to moisten the inside walls and permit of greater enjoyment of the "bouquet." For the demi-sec or "half-dry" wines, such as white Burgundy or white Bordeaux, stemmed spheroid glasses are preferable,butthelong-stemmed tulip shapes are permissible. The capacity varies from four to seven ounces. When serving the light red wines of Bordeaux or the Rhone River district of France, use very wide-mouthed,large tulip shaped glasses with high stems, or long stemmed spheroids. Capacities range from four to seven ounces. For your Red Burgundy (stdl) use wide-mouthed tulip or spheroid types to display to best advantage the glorious crimson of the wine color. For Sparkling Burgundy a shorter, hollow-stemmed and fairly wide-mouthed half-spheroid or flat-looking "coupe" glass is used,so that the bubbling beads of effervescence may rise from the stem bottom and be admired from the time of their release until they break in contacting the air. For Champagne,the widest mouthed of all glasses should be used. The shallow hemisphere or "coupe" surmounting the hollowed stem, up which, as in the Sparkling Burgundy glass which is slightly smaller,the beads rise fountain-like to the stirface, should be expressive of generosity. Champagne demandsexpanse—demands plenty of showiness,so to speak. It is best appreciated,too,if imbibed from the wide-mouthed glass, which, incidentally, is far more decorative than the smaller sized, less showy tulip shaped glasses. Of course, you may use in serving wines, fancy bowls of hexagon, octagon or fluted shape, but they are not in best form, if you are a stickler for the niceties of the wining and dining hour. A growing fad for colored stems or feet beneath pure crystal bowls requires just a friendly word of warning to the hostess to harmonize her color effects. Imagine my reaction one time when, on an otherwise perfectly spread table, the hostess served Port Wine in green-stemmed glasses! She might have escaped later chagrin had she only used amber or golden colored glass stems.