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Most Useful Wine Accessories

Wine accessories are important to help open,sediment. It is used as a serving vessel for
preserve, and serve the wine. The mostwine. Most decanters have a tall, upright
important wine accessories are stemware,shape and are made of glass to allow
corkscrews, racks, collars, and decanters.inspection of the process of decanting. The
All of these accessories play a big role inshapes may vary due to the modernization of
wine.decanters.
One of the most important wine accessories toAnother accessory is the wine rack. The wine
have is stemware. Stemware is a type of drinkrack, which many wine collectors and
ware that stands up on a stem above a base.restaurants own, is a storage device used for
Most of the time it's made from glass, but itthe orientation of long term wine aging. It
can also be made from metals and ceramics.usually lays the bottle on its side at a
There is a wide variety of stemware such asdownward angle to keep the cork from drying
wine glasses, champagne flutes, chalices andand the ensuing entry of oxygen. It also
goblets, cocktail glasses, Brandy snifters,serves  as  a  decorative  piece  in  homes.
and cordial glasses. Each stemware plays an
individual part in wine or alcoholicAn additional wine accessory is the wine
beverages.collar. It fits around the neck of the wine
bottle. It stops any dripping that may occur
Another important wine accessory is theafter the bottle of wine has been poured.
corkscrew. The corkscrew is used for drawingThis is important because it help prevents
stopping corks from wine bottles. Corkscrewsthe staining of surfaces that the wine may
are necessary because corks are too small andcome in contact with such as counter top,
smooth. There are four basic types oftables, and table cloths. Wine collars are
corkscrews. There is the basic wooden handledalso generally known as a drip ring, drip
corkscrew, wing corkscrew, sommelier knife,dickey  or  drip  collar.
and  twin-prong  cork  puller.
As a whole, each of the wine accessories
Decanters also play a big part in winementioned play an important role in serving
accessories. Decanters are vessels equippedand preserving wine. From the collar to the
with a stopper that is used to hold therack, all wine accessories play a very big
decantation of a liquid which may containrole.



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