Champagne flute
The narrow bowl slows the loss of bubbles and keeps sparkling cocktails bright for longer.
- Capacity
- 180–300 ml6–10¼ oz
- Typical pour
- 128 ml4¼ oz
- How it’s served
- Served up — no ice in the glass
- In this collection
- 11 cocktails
Why this shape
Narrow and tall, for one job: keeping bubbles. A small surface area at the top means less area for CO2 to escape from, and the depth gives the bubbles a long column to rise through, which is the visual you are paying for. Everything about the shape is a trade of aroma for persistence.
Getting it cold
Chill the glass and the wine. Warm sparkling wine foams over on pouring and then goes flat quickly.
The usual mistake
Pouring straight down the middle. Pour against the inside wall at an angle and you keep noticeably more of the carbonation.
Where it comes from
Sommeliers increasingly serve fine sparkling wine in a white-wine glass instead — you lose some of the bead and gain most of the aroma.
No champagne flute? Use this instead
Use a small white-wine glass if a flute is unavailable.
Cocktails served in it
11 in all, pouring between 105–150 ml3½–5 oz.
