Have you ever put your nose into a glass of scotch and your first thought was “This doesn’t smell like anything at all?” You may have the wrong type of glass, as I outlined in my scotch glass test. The more likely cause is that chemicals remaining from when the glass was cleaned are robbing your drink from effectively releasing its natural scent. This is especially true if your glass is made from crystal, which has a rougher surface than glass which easier traps chemicals from cleaning.

After trying 3 scotches from a flask and a shot glass, there were 3 glasses that were most familiar to me for scotch drinking: the Tumbler, the Wine Glass and the Glencairn Glass. I feel that all 3 of these are acceptable scotch glasses. The tumbler probably carries the least pretense; you’re not very likely to be served scotch in crystal glassware at a restaurant. My question is, is there a better glass for drinking scotch?

Can different glasses effect the taste of scotch? I recently used myself as a lab rat and tried 3 scotch whiskies from 5 different vessels: The wedding flask, shot glass, tumbler, wine glass and a recent gift, the Glencairn glass.
Often the nature of our drinking determines the glass we choose, or that someone else chooses for us.  This can in turn change our judgement of the scotch  and the way we enjoy it.  A good example of this is in a restaurant, when you often have no choice what type of glassware …