It really is Halloween night tonight, and you will be having an outdoor party on your boat dock together with your family and some friends. The weather is nice, and the food is excellent. Every thing is best. You even remembered to paint your boat an image of a skull and bones with wings. Now you only must serve some Halloween drinks.

Nevertheless, before you prepare your spooky Mad Eye Martini, Jack O’Lantern, Pumpkin Martini, or Freddy Krueger Halloween drinks, be certain you’ve got your scary Halloween glasses ready. Your Halloween punches and drinks won’t be as scary in the event you serve them using some glasses with pictures of Donald Duck or Scooby Doo. Use only scary Halloween glasses to serve your spooky Halloween drinks.

There are numerous scary Halloween glasses to complement your Halloween drinks. As an example, you’ll be able to use the Test Tube Shooters to serve your Halloween drinks. The Test Tube Shooters include six plastic test tube shaped glasses that may hold around two ounces of any of your Halloween drinks. The test tube glasses come in diverse colors. There is a red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple test tube glass. A black plastic display rack holds the six test tube glasses. This goes quite well with a mad scientist Halloween costume.

If scary games are your thing, you can use the Pick Your Poison Drinking Game to serve your Halloween drinks. This game adds a new twist to the Spin the Bottle game. The glass holder can hold six glasses of your drinks, which is sufficient for a group of six folks. A creepy spider and some spider webs adorn its base. Like the Test Tube Shooters, each glass holds two ounces of any of your Halloween drinks. Every glass also has an image of the skull and crossbones. The fun component is that the glass holder flashes a random light from 1 shot glass to yet another, and wherever the light stops, the corresponding individual has to take a shot of your Halloween drink.

The rising trend of popularity of wine has led to a boom in things to go with wine like corkscrews, stoppers, coolers, napkins, pouring baskets, decanters, candles, thermometers, bottle jackets, hydrometers and dozens of varieties of each accessory from electric versions to manual ones. Needless to say, a lot of these accessories will be used until the novelty wears off and then left at the back of the cupboard.

However, there is one type of wine drinking accessory that no wine drinker should be without and that is wine glasses. They are essential, I am sure that everyone would agree. But the good thing about wine glasses is that they are decorative when they are not in use too. A set of six lead crystal wine glasses is a beautiful sight. And a fine set of glasses correctly shaped for the wine you are drinking will greatly enhance your enjoyment of that wine.

This is because the profile of the glass is very influential on the drinker\’s capacity to savour the taste and the aroma of wine. Therefore, it is essential to use the correct glasses for the type of wine being drunk.

Red wines benefit a lot from contact with air, so, aside from opening the bottle an hour before drinking it, you could decant it. The older and heavier the wine, the more air it needs. The next step is to serve the red wine in large glasses. This is not so as to be able to get as much wine in there as possible! A full, normal size bottle contains six servings no matter what glass you use, but a large glass allows you to swirl the wine around the glass, thereby increasing its contact with air.

A large tulip shaped glass is a good illustration of this kind of wine glass and any dark red wine would benefit from being drunk out of such a vessel. Try a Rioja or Bordeaux, for example.

White wines, on the other hand, do not need to breathe for as long as red wines and are best drunk slightly chilled. Therefore, the wine glasses are likely to have a smaller bowl and a longer stem. The bowl is smaller, because swirling is not essential and the stem is longer, so that the heat from your hand does not warm the wine up prematurely. Try a Chardonnay, a Sauvignon or a German wine in these glasses.

Champagne glasses are called champagne flutes because the bowl is long and narrow, which allows the bubbles to float through more of the wine than if the bowl were short. This is beneficial for the wine, the taste and its appearance. The stem is also long as with other white wines to diminish heat transfer.

The last main kind of glass is the sherry schooner, which is also used for port. Sherry and port are both heavy reds and so need to breathe, which is one of the reasons why they ought to be decanted. However, a schooner has hardly any stem, because the warmth from your hand is required to keep the wine at the right temperature.

Apart from the shape of the bowl and the length of the stem, the next most important factor is the quality of the glass and its design. Some people like hand-blown glass and it can be very beautiful, but it also tends to be light and delicate. I prefer to use lead crystal glasses, which are a lot heavier and can take a deeper pattern.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on many topics, but is currently involved with Waterford crystal vases. If you have an interest in Irish crystal or wedding rings, please go to our website now at White Gold Claddagh Ring

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