{"id":32412,"date":"2020-11-17T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T11:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/?p=32412"},"modified":"2020-12-02T11:26:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T11:26:38","slug":"the-best-christmas-gift-for-a-wine-lover-might-not-be-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-best-christmas-gift-for-a-wine-lover-might-not-be-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"The best Christmas gift for a wine lover might not be wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Zalto<\/p>\n

What do I buy for the overly particular wine lover in my life? Is a statement which I expect is issued forth by almost every person in line (all three of them) to buy me a gift, every Christmas. Do you buy them wine? Perhaps. We all love to get it, but it can also be akin to a white-knuckle sensation – the similar cold sweat which breaks out when confronted with a charging herd of cattle, an angry bear, or a traffic warden can bead on ones forehead at the chance of getting it wrong.<\/p>\n

So what do you do for someone who fits in this bracket?<\/p>\n

My advice – buy them wine ware.<\/em><\/p>\n

What on earth is wine ware? I hear you ask. Is it some sort of outfit which I have to put on, because that\u2019s really I\u2019m not entirely comfortable with, and shouldn\u2019t it be reserved for Valentine’s day..? No. It\u2019s all the fun things which really improve the experience of enjoying wine.<\/p>\n

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In particular, if you\u2019re stuck for a gift, then please \u2013 from one wine lover to another, buy that person Zalto glasses. It sounds boring, but when I first started in this merry trade, I was introduced to the idea of the Riedel \u2018Chardonnay\u2019 glass<\/a>. A preposterous idea in my mind, that a glass could really change the smell and taste of a wine. What a waste of money. A week later, I\u2019d bought 12…<\/p>\n

\"Riedel<\/a>

Riedel glassware<\/p><\/div>\n

Browse our Riedel Glass Collection here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A few years after this, at the wonderfully wine-centric club, 67 Pall Mall, I discovered Zalto. It took me a while to forsake my Riedel Collection (about a month, with a few \u2018accidental\u2019 breakages to justify it) \u2013 but I was a total convert.<\/p>\n

Glassware makes a huge difference to how you enjoy the liquid in it. You may have consciously noticed this, you may not, but you\u2019ll have enjoyed it at some point, and Zalto are the most delicate, wonderful things to drink from \u2013 the stem quite literally feels like it\u2019s flexing as you swirl the wine, but it never snaps. Something akin to a suspension cable on a bridge, they feel incredibly fragile, but are remarkably strong (I once watched one fall from a table onto a carpeted floor, then roll to the edge of the room before stopping, intact). Aromas are enhanced by the shape, flavours by the sheer thinness of the glass bulb.<\/p>\n

I love Riedel for sort of getting this whole thing going, but Zalto have really knocked them off the top spot. They also come in far more simple shapes, Universal<\/a>, Burgundy<\/a> and Bordeaux<\/a>, rather than having to worry about specifically having your glasses for each grape. Something even I, as a stemware obsessive, found tiresome.<\/p>\n

\"Zalto<\/a>

Zalto Glassware<\/p><\/div>\n

Browse our Zalto Glass Collection here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, there it is, the best advice I may give all festive season. Buy a person a bottle of wine and they may have enjoyment for a day, teach them about Zalto glasses and they\u2019ll have greater enjoyment of wine for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n

\u00a0If that person already has Zalto glasses, or indeed you\u2019re looking for something else to go with them, then do explore our \u2018gifts and gadgets\u2019 page on the L&S website \u2013 a Coravin<\/a>, a WineSave<\/a> or one of the carefully selected titles in our range of books<\/a> are all things that any wine lover will be over the moon to receive. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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