The document discusses the importance of glassware for sommeliers. Different types of wine glasses are designed for specific wines based on characteristics like the wine's bubbles, aroma, or age. For example, an elongated chalice or flute is used for dry sparkling wines to display bubbles, while a large chalice with a rounded bowl is best for mature red wines. Proper serving techniques are also discussed, such as cooling white wines and warming mature red wines to the appropriate temperature.

1. IMPORTANCE OF
GLASSWARE
• Ultimate tool for sommelier trade
• Chosen carefully for : functions, effect, fit
for setting or the occasion.
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Sunil Kumar
Research Scholar/ Food Production Faculty
Institute of Hotel and Tourism Management,
MAHARSHI DAYANAND UNIVERSITY, ROHTAK
Haryana- 124001 INDIA Ph. No. 09996000499
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2. THERE IS ALWAYS A
BATTLE GOING ON AS TO
WHICH IS THE RIGHT TYPE
OF GLASS FOR RIGHT
WINE!!!

3. Wine glass : CHALICE

4. CHARACTERISTICS OF
GLASSES
• Transparent
• Untinted
• Minimum etching or
design

5. Dry sparkling wine
• elongated chalice
or flute
• Display of bubbles

6. Sweet sparkling wine
• A broad, shallow
chalice also

7. Young white wine
• small, slim chalice
• best expresses
the fresh flavors
and delicate
aromas.

8. Young rose wine
• A small chalice,
somewhat wider
at the bowl than
the rim

9. Mature red wine
• large chalice with
a well-rounded
bowl and an
inward taper at
the rilets.

10. Dessert wine
• A tall, slender,
cylindrical chalice
• designed to
express the
immediate
aromas.

11. SERVING WINE

12. SERVICE RULES
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•
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To be served at the proper temperature
If wines are in the cellar before service
White wines – cooled
Mature red wines – warmed

13. Vines & Grapes
• Vitis Vinifera is the
ancient Latin term for
vines whose grapes
produce juice that
ferments into wine.
• Such vines are grown in
the temperate climate
zones, generally between
the 30th and 50th
parallels in the northern
hemisphere, or between
the 30th and 40th
parallels in the southern
hemisphere.

14. ALTITUDE
• Altitude is a key factor. In most countries, vines thrive
at 800 to 1,600 feet above sea level. Vineyards are
rarely planted higher than 2,000 feet, but there are
exceptions, such as Italy's alpine Valle d'Aosta
DESINGED BY
Sunil Kumar
Research Scholar/ Food Production Faculty
Institute of Hotel and Tourism Management,
MAHARSHI DAYANAND UNIVERSITY, ROHTAK
Haryana- 124001 INDIA Ph. No. 09996000499
email: skihm86@yahoo.com ,
balhara86@gmail.com
linkedin:- in.linkedin.com/in/ihmsunilkumar
facebook: www.facebook.com/ihmsunilkumar
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