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Win beautiful handmade Crystal Wine Glasses!

Online crystal glassware store Forever Crystal are giving away a pair of beautiful classic 24% lead crystal wine glasses on their blog, completely free! The stunning red wine flutes are part of the ever popular ‘Cross Swirl’ range, and are delicate flute shaped glasses with a classic spiral design. The glasses will be won by one lucky reader of the Forever Crystal blog, in the first of a new monthly competition. They are a truly special prize as each glass is handmade and hand cut, so that each glass is slightly different and unique.

If like me you enjoy a nice glass of wine, you are probably already aware of how much of a difference a good quality wine glass can make. Most people know that drinking from a lead crystal wine glass is more enjoyable than using regular ones and that they improve the taste and aroma of the wine. But

Does a crystal glass really make wine taste different?

It is a popular belief that the glass in which you serve a fine wine is almost as important to your enjoyment of the drink as the wine itself. The shape, colour and fabric of wine glasses are all supposed to influence the way you appreciate the flavour and aroma of a wine. Whether there is really much truth to this or not remains to be seen but there are actually some convincing arguments that a wine does taste better if drunk from the right glass.

So how do we know which glasses we should be using? With thousands of different glasses out there it’s hard to know which ones will be the best. Most people agree that a specially designed glass is required for some types of wine. The most obvious example of this is tall, thin champagne flutes which are designed to retain the ‘fizziness’ in sparkling wines by reducing