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The Eoos group of Austrian designers makes it Alessi bow with the Universal Tasting Glass. I love this glass for the humour behind its paradoxical approach, but also for the legitimacy with which a theme that has almost become grotesque in the world of the Arts de la table has been knocked down. I still remember what late lamented Italian wine expert Luigi Veronelli used to argumentatively say to me when arguing the analytical approach: to achieve the theoretical fulfilment of this approach in tasting glasses, you should create a different glass for every wine of the same grape made by different producers…as well as distinguish each vintage of the same wine and producer from each other! The Eoos Universal Tasting Glass is essentially a synthetic glass with a double interface, therefore suitable for tasting a notable number of different wines: half of the rim points inwards (holding and concentrating the aromas) whilst the other half opens towards the external (freeing the aromas to oxygenation). << We tried the glass yesterday with quite a raw barbaresco (young). It was interesting to note that on the red wine side (which bends internally) the wine had quite a neutral flavour, as it indeed has. However, from the soft side, that of the white wine (which bends towards the outside), the wine was pretty brutal, the aromas had separated. Surprisingly when we then drunk from the centre of the glass, where the two sides are partitioned, the wine seemed smooth and balanced. What we like is the fact that with this glass the process of “creating the wine” is, poetically speaking, still under development. In this way, in our opinion, the public is a little more involved in the wine-tasting process. Rather than trying to teach them something, we want people to have fun with the glass >> Harald Grundl/Eoos The seriousness of this Eoos project, together with the humour and eccentricity that inspired it, fit perfectly with my private wine producing project, a rather ambitious project which I have worked on over the last decade and which, in a few years, will finally see the light in an official capacity, and this persuaded me to give the glass the auspicious name of “Alberto’s vineyard”. I hope the name brings good luck to both projects!