How do you drink yours?

[Zelandakh]

This probably sounds dumb...so I shall ask anyway.

I used to drink port when I was very young from a sherry schooner. Presumably my parents thought it was a neat small glass.
Then I progressed to the Paris goblet as was fashionable in the 70s.
Then a variety of smaller tulip glasses.

Now I prefer the flavour produced by drinking from a port pipe though at 65ml when full, it needs regular filling. The glass Meerschaum pipe is far better for capacity but cannot be put down unless empty.

So what does everyone else prefer? Pubs seem to think that a tumbler that has just been removed from the dishwasher / oven would be ideal...eejits.

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[KillerB]

A Port pipe? We've had Port sippers but pipe? Unless you are drinking straight from a pipe of port, in which case, Kudos.

I am a sad, straight up, port glass user.

[JacobH]

This probably sounds dumb...so I shall ask anyway.

No, no, no. No questions to do with Port are dump and all such questions are deadly serious...

So what does everyone else prefer? Pubs seem to think that a tumbler that has just been removed from the dishwasher / oven would be ideal...eejits.

For normal drinking at home I tend to use a set of tulip-shaped Cognac glasses as they are approximately the right shape, decent quality and quite cheap. They are also have a slightly lower centre-of-gravity which is also an advantage from time-to-time!

If the Port isn’t much good, I also have a nice set of antique glasses which have cup-shaped bowels, which are quite nice to use when there isn’t much need to funnel the nose.

I do quite like drinking a tumbler full of tawny at Gordon’s though!

[JacobH]

A Port pipe? We've had Port sippers but pipe? Unless you are drinking straight from a pipe of port, in which case, Kudos.

I think a straw is the only appropriate piece of hardware for drinking Port straight from the Pipe.

[jdaw1]

An INAO/ISO3591 glass. My standard equipment for port, sherry, Madeira, whisky, champagne, or pastis.

Related threads:

• Port Sippers?;
• Port "Sippers";
• Glasses: what to buy; where to buy?;
• Boxes for INAO/ISO3591 glasses.

[DRT]

I use the Riedel Vinum Port Glass - see here

[g-man]

http://www.oak-barrel.com/barrels_and_o ... barrel.jpg

I dont think I could finish one in a sitting but a port pipe sounds intriguing =)

[Portman]

I use Riedel Vinum Port glasses.

[Glenn E.]

I use the Riedel Vinum Port Glass - see here

Me too. Short of the hand-blown Riedel Sommelier series glasses, it's by far the best Port glass available.

I have one each of the Sommelier Tawny Port and Vintage Port glasses, but they're so expensive that I'm afraid to use them very often. The Vinum glass is very fine crystal in its own right, but the Sommelier glasses make the Vinums feel like lead paperweights.

[Michael M.]

I often use a glass for white wine. It's Weissweinkelch series VINO GRANDE from Spiegelau.
http://www.amazon.de/Spiegelau-Wei%C3%9 ... 531&sr=1-1

I'd say this one looks like a pipe.
http://www.amazon.com/Oenophilia-Porto- ... TF8&s=home

[gerwin.degraaf]

I often use a glass for white wine. It's Weissweinkelch series VINO GRANDE from Spiegelau.
http://www.amazon.de/Spiegelau-Wei%C3%9 ... 531&sr=1-1

I'd say this one looks like a pipe.
http://www.amazon.com/Oenophilia-Porto- ... TF8&s=home

I often use thesame glass as well. Or on occasion, I use the Spiegelau Vino Grande Degustation-Chianti (I think that has been discontinued now), because that has a lot of similarities to the Riedel Vinum vintage port glass. The advantage of Spigelau (owned by Riedel by the way) is that the glasses are far less expensive (especially over here in The Netherlands) than Riedel, but they still are very fine wine/port glasses.

[Zelandakh]

I'll see if I can organise to attend the next London event and bring some of these puppies along...worth trialling though any excuse to open a good bottle...

[Zelandakh]

I've got a meerschaum (Sherlock Holmes) version in glass. Holds enough port to do the trick but you can't put it down.

Sucking the port through the straw blows it over the palette - much more taste for much less quantity. It goes further...

[DRT]

Just as we thought - it's a headless cat

Nick - get yourself to a port tasting - you know it's the right thing to do

[RonnieRoots]

Just as we thought - it's a headless cat

Don't tell KillerB, he's just out of rehab.

[KillerB]

The original headless cats

[Portman]

Just when you thought you have seen it all...

Can someone explain the advantage of these contraptions in drinking port? Ive seen something similar used as a gravy separator to remove the oils floating on the top, but I would think that you would want the opposite for a port, where the unwanted sediment settles to the bottom.

[Zelandakh]

The port sprays across your palate. More taste, less juice. More to savour...

Sediment? Ha. Silver funnel. Muslin. You know it makes sense.

Nick

[DRT]

Surely these are ideal for Uncle Tom's Experiment provided you suck and spit the first sip?

[Portman]

So maybe we should just drink our port through straws?

I am skeptical that sucking through a straw like device gives any different taste than sipping it from a glass. Of course I am an American philistine.

But in the spirit of homo universalis I will withhold further sarcasm until I have tried this machine for myself. Bill

[Zelandakh]

Not necessarily a different taste. Try sipping coke from a glass. Then try slurping the same quantity through a straw. More mouth feel, more coating - like painting your mouth in coke.

And I don't mean white powder.

I like to taste my port all round my mouth so that means I either take a large gulp or I suck it. Since I can't be doing with one glass, this allows taste without the utter failure to walk that would follow.

Nick

[Glenn E.]

the utter failure to walk that would follow.

Been there, done that!

[Alex Bridgeman]

I must admit, I am quite looking forward to seeing port drunk from port sippers. I've always been extremely sceptical about them - but then I was about Riedel's glasses until I tried them for myself.

And I do admit that drinking Coke from a glass is very different from drinking Coke through a straw.

[Andy Velebil]

I prefer this glass for drinking Port

[Michael M.]

Andy, what's that liquid in the glass? Is it matured Pink Port? Will one look like this man after weeks of abuse?

Michael