Champagne glass effect of bubbles rising to the top. The flute's narrow cross-section also minimizes the oxygen-to-wine ratio, which enhances both the wine's aroma and taste. While most commonly used for sparkling wines, flutes are also used for certain beers, especially fruit beers and Belgian lambics and gueuzes. The flute shows off the beer's color, and helps gather the aroma for the nose. The champagne flute is distinguished from the pilsner glass, which lacks a stem. The champagne coupe is a shallow, broad-bowled, saucer shaped stemmed glass generally capable of containing of liquid. Legend has it the shape of the coupe was
Cathedral glass Cathedral glass Cathedral glass is the name given commercially to monochromatic sheet glass. It is thin by comparison with "slab glass", may be coloured, and is textured on one side. The name draws from the fact that windows of "stained glass" were a feature of medieval European cathedrals from the 10th century onwards. The term "cathedral glass" is sometimes applied erroneously to the windows of cathedrals as an alternative to the term "stained glass". "Stained glass" is the material and the art form of making coloured windows of elaborate or pictorial design. Very early architectural glass, like that sometimes found