Champagne glass the aroma than a traditional flute while the mouth is still narrow enough to avoid quick loss of carbonation. "The Washington Post" food columnist Dave McIntyre has argued that the tulip allows the champagne to move to the middle from the front of the tongue, allowing the wine's flavor to be better expressed. The glass maker Riedel particularly criticizes flutes as one-dimensional, impairing drinkers' ability to appreciate a wine's full range of aromas and taste profiles. In the 1960s, double-wall stemware was developed to slow the transfer of heat from a drinker's hand to champagne and other beverages. Inner and
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