While tasting the wine we are sensitive not only to the taste and fragrance but also to its visual aspects. That is why both shape and size of the glass are such important factors. Only properly selected stemware let us fully appreciate the bouquet and taste of wine served in it. KROSNO glassworks have a long tradition and great experience in the production of glass stemware.

Classic Champagne is produced in Champagne from three grape varieties: the Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier red grapes and the Chardonnay white grapes. Three or five years-this is the best age for champagne, which, by the way, we pour into chilled glasses only. And the best time for champagne is… whenever we feel like it. The label tells us to open champagne with a delicate “sigh” of the cork, the only exception being the New Year`s Eve, when corks are used to stage veritable cannonades.
It goes very well with fresh-water fish, sea food and oysters.
A classic combination in France is truffles and champagne.

Is a typical Italian alcoholic beverage recognised all over the world. It is a distillate of fermented pomace and grape stones. It has a characteristic flavour and strong aroma and is served after a meal. You can also add a few drops of Grappa to espresso.

The following grape varieties should be mentioned as one of those that create or contribute to the world’s most wonderful wines:

- Cabernet Sauvignon is the most famous, classic grape variety with a strong, clear flavour producing one of the world’s longest-living wines. Its homeland is considered to be the Bordeaux Region in France. Light and fruity wines, as long as they are not sweet and sour, go well with meat salads, cold meat, pasta, rice dishes, veal, pork, as well as Spanish and Asian food. The old heavy Cabernets go well with beef, barbecued food, fish, fat poultry and wild poultry. They are also a good choice for ripe cheese and desserts with bitter chocolate.

- Pinot Noir is known to have been grown for two thousand years. It produces wine with a fruit aroma leaving a permanent impression on your mind and your tongue. It is a grape variety used to produce red burgundy. Highly recommended to accompany roast lamb, barbecued fish, duck and wild poultry, it goes best with simple food with a strong flavour. Pinot Noir should not be paired with heavily spiced food.

- Merlot one of the world’s finest red wine grape varieties. It gives wine colour and enriches it with alcohol. It also gives wine its flexibility and roundness, and allows the right aroma for the wines to be obtained relatively quickly. The world’s finest (most expensive) wine produced from the Merlot variety is Chateau Petrus from Pomerol. Merlot has a very delicate and velvety flavour. It is particularly recommended for wine beginners. It pairs very well with lamb and beef as well as chicken. It is also used to add flavour to semi-fat cheeses and chocolate.

The following are the finest wine grape varieties:

- Chardonnay one of the world’s most remarkable and widely-grown white grape varieties used to produce a classic white burgundy. It contains aromas of fruit, smoke, vanilla and nuts. It goes brilliantly with trout and delicate crabs.

- Sauvignon Blanc one of the oldest white grape varieties in France considered to be the rainbow variety in which as many as six colours can be distinguished. It produces a highly aromatic and fresh wine that tastes best young.
It is suggested as a good match with sea food, shrimp, fish and white meat. It goes particularly well with pork, tomatoes and is brilliant to accompany goat’s milk cheese.

- Riesling considered to be the world’s finest variety among white grapes, it is used to produce all types of wine from dry to sweet. It accounts for 60% of special occasion wines. Dry and semi-dry Rieslings accentuate the flavour of fresh-water fish, such as trout, cooked in butter. It also works well with heavily spiced red meat like beef in a Thai or Japanese style.

Water is the best thirst quencher and never fails to refresh us, whether with a dash of lime juice or a leaf of mint, or maybe with ice. It is perfect at any time of day, all year round.

Is a fortified sweet red wine. Along with Madera, it is the most famous sweet wine in Portugal. It is drunk at the end of a meal to accompany desserts with a strong flavour, nuts and blue cheese.

Is obtained from grapes with the addition of an extract from wormwood.
Martini is a superb drink when just taken straight, but also a source of infinite inspirations for colourful cocktails. It tastes well as classic Martini Dry (two measures of Martini mixed with eight measures of gin and served with an olive),or in other fashionable drinks, in which everyone is bound to find a blend that fits their temperament.

Sweet and dense: made of herbs, spices, or fruit. It adds colour to a number of drinks and, when taken straight, it is perfect to funk up an evening intended for ladies only. We recommend liqueurs as either an aperitif or a digestif– in this case however, they definitely need to be served at room temperature.