Fluid: Hold Me

I usually love Lettie Teague, a frequent contributor to Food and Wine Magazine and a columnist at the Wall Street Journal.  I can appreciate her post, “How To Hold a Glass of Wine” for pointing out the purely chemical reasons why one should not hold your glass by the bowl. But I  bristle at her point about elegance.  “Holding the glass by the bowl,” she posits, doesn’t look nice. “It’s much more elegant to hold it by the stem.”

I hold a glass of good wine by the stem because I want to enjoy its intended flavor and characteristics, not because I need to seem/feel elegant. And frankly, it’s disheartening that wine snobbery is still so alive and well.

http://blogs.wsj.com/wine/2010/08/12/how-to-hold-a-glass-of-wine/