Selecting the correct wine glass when drinking Pinot Noir is very important. Good Pinot Noir is a complex wine, starting from the growing of the grapes, through to the making of the wine. A huge number of factors come into play for the vineyard manager and the winemaker, making Pinot Noir one of the toughest wines to make consistently well.

Pinot Noir has in recent years taken on an aura of elusive quality – the winemakers who delve into the production of Pinot Noir seldom do it in order to produce a $10 bottle of red wine that you can purchase at your local beer store. Granted you can find wines labelled Pinot Noir in this price bracket but they tend to be there because of a failure on a winemakers part, or fickle wether, bad vineyard location, or simply plain bad luck that led to something going wrong in the chain of production.

Pinot Noir makers are on the most part passionate individuals who have been bitten by the Pinot Noir bug and dedicate their lives to producing what they hope will be magnificent Pinot Noir, or Burgundy as it is called in France.

The odds are in the most part stacked against them but once you have yourself tasted great Pinot Noir, the search then moves on for the next and the next great Pinot noir to taste.

Once you have found your Pinot Noir that you believe hold the flavors you seek, now is the time to bring out your special Pinot Noir glasses – glasses that have the perfect bowl shape to direct the wine to the correct area of your palate. A Pinot Noir glass designed specifically for the drinking of pinot noir wine, will hold and release all the bouquet secrets that the wine has to offer.

With all the effort gone into producing a great Pinot Noir, the final act of consuming the wine should always be done with the perfect glass.