Port Sippers - Set of 2 | Gift Boxed Port Glasses, Brandy Sippers, Sipper Glasses

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This high-quality port sipper reduces the oxidation of red wine that allows your taste buds to experience the full flavor of the port. Originating in the 17th century and formed from hand-crafted glass, these dainty Porto Sippers are serving essentials for lovers of port, sweet wine and liqueurs. Drinking your port from a port sipper may be a fresh idea now, but some claim these port sippers resemble classes from the 17th century. The Black Series from Riedel glasses includes a beautiful red string of color throughout the stem, which is encased in transparent crystal.

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This Port Wine Glass was designed by the great Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza and authorized by the Port Wine Institute (IVDP). Instead, channel your inner Sherlock Holmes, perch the bowl between your fingers and sip daintily through the opening at the top of the curvy little ‘pipe’ at the side. The 2 glass feet, along with the base of the glass ensure that the port glass stays put when you put it down. Give the gift of gorgeously crafted port wine sippers which can also be used as after dinner port and sherry glasses or liqueur glasses.Port wine lovers are now able to appreciate a decent measure of their favourite drink in well proportioned, quality glasses that make the most of the rich aromas and full bodied flavour of a vintage port. They are known for their tall bowl, narrow rim, and a short stem, which minimizes aeration and ensures that there’s just the right balance of rich fruit and aromas, while also reducing the high alcohol aromas. This functional glass also comes with two small feet that make it easy to set down your glass on a flat surface.

Glass Porto Wine Sippers Gift Set | Lakeland 4 Glass Porto Wine Sippers Gift Set | Lakeland

Drinking from a lovely set of engraved port glasses and with a Hoggit-style, round bottomed decanter, which cannot be put down except on a special wooden base, an evening can be spent ensuring guests keep passing the port round the table – always to the left of course, and always in moderation! However, with the rise of their popularity, wine connoisseurs are finding that these port sippers aren’t exactly meant for the more experienced drinkers. Perfect, bought to go with a bottle of ruby port for a couple celebrating there ruby wedding anniversary, and they are so cute, didn't know you could get such things till I found them on your site, I am so pleased they are so unusual. In its place is a hollow pipe that gently curves upwards towards the mouth of the glass, rather like a tea-pot handle.The unique shape of the sipper encourages the port wine to be sipped from the bottom of the glass, through the curved pipe, ensuring that most of the port does not have contact with too much oxygen. Not forgetting the classic combination of port and cheese; consider any type of port with a mature cheddar, and a fine vintage port with a good quality Stilton.

Port sippers – a unique type of engraved port glasses Port sippers – a unique type of engraved port glasses

In turn, this stops the fermentation of wine and fortifies it which subsequently raises the alcohol content. A tawny port goes well with milk chocolate, and a vintage port would find the perfect pairing with dark chocolate.

First introduced into Europe in the 17th Century, the port sipper, also known as a sipping pipe, was originally made from ceramic. If you’re ever in Porto, this is the type of glass you’ll see people using to drink their port wine.