Champagne flute, champagne coupe

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Champagne flute and bottle

Champagne stemwarerefers to the flute and coupestemware used in the enjoyment of champagne, other sparkling wines, and certain beers.

Champagne flute

The champagne flûte (fr.Flûte à Champagne) is a stem glass with a tall, narrow bowl. As with other stemware, the stem allows the drinker to hold the glass without affecting the temperature of the drink. The bowl is designed to retain champagne's signaturecarbonation, by reducing thesurface area at the opening of the bowl. The flute has largely replaced the champagne coupe or saucer, the shape of which allowed carbonation to dissipate even more rapidly than from a standard wine glass. Its smaller diameter also allows more flutes to be carried on a tray.

Nucleation in a champagne glass helps form the bubbles seen in champagne. Too much nucleation will cause the carbonation to quickly fizzle out. A smoother surface area will produce fewer bubbles in the glass, and more bubble texture in the taster's mouth.

While most commonly used for sparkling wines, flutes are also used for certain beers, especially Belgian lambic and gueuze, which are brewed with wild yeast and often fruited. The tart flavour of these beers, coupled with their carbonation, makes them similar to sparkling white wines, and the champagne flute an ideal choice of glassware.

Champagne coupe

Champagne coupe

The champagne coupe orchampagne saucer is the saucer-shaped stem glass once used for serving champagne, but now more commonly used for certain cocktails such asdaiquiris. ^[1] Legend has it the shape of the glass was modeled on the breast of Marie Antoinette, Joséphine de Beauharnais, Madame de Pompadour, or one of several other French aristocrats, although this is almost certainly false. The glass was designed especially for champagne in England in 1663, preceding those aristocrats by almost a century. ^[2]The margarita glass is a type of modified coupe, with the main bowl of the glass transitioning to a more narrow reservoir atop the stem.