Aw - damnations & zut alors!! The great secret is out!! :lol:

They look really good but I can see what you mean about the stem, looks kinda fragile. I might get a couple of those stemless ones. The tulip design seems to be the way to go for the malts.

Glenmorangie also do a similar one - on a stem but more bulbous :? :?: 8-[ *looks over shoulder for Cuffy*

These are the same as the wine glasses I collect and seem to be a similar style just 3 times the price

oops duff link...........

http://www.riedel-store.co.uk/acatalog/Spirits.html

Those are thems. So you'd go for a tulip shaped glass over a crystal tumbler?

Mmm - stylish. To be honest though, as I like some ice, three chunks usually, a tumbler is fine, particularly as my measures of the fine dram are about three fingers (cuffy alert!!). I use the tulip if I'm tasting something rather special & rare - a smaller more sensible measure and so a correspondingly reduced amount of the old 'Titanic sinker'.

Reeto, so I'll be needing a set of tumblers and one or two tasting glasses.

Dear Santa,

For Christmas... Oh **** too late

Plenty early for next crimbo tho'!! Ho Ho Ho.

Drink it how you like it, BUT ice will numb the taste buds and so reduce the appreciation of the flavour. As a large proportion of the taste sensation comes from smell, icey whiskey gives off much reduced vapour, further reducing taste.

The point of a tulip glass is to gather the vapours and direct them to your hooter, so anything reducing that will be counter productive when tasting top quality malts.

Water is fine, as this tends to release vapours and so improve the tasting experience. I would describe most cask strength experience as 'closed' until a little water is added. How much water depends on the dram...

For normal drinking, I use a tumbler. As folk know I like a drop, I have been given some lovely cut glass ones over the years. So posh glasses for good whisky....