The Megabytes Competition: Riedel Wine Glasses

Gerry Gunnigan, wholesale manager of Mitchell's Wine Merchants of Kildare Street and Glasthule, has a party piece that goes something like this:

He pours you a taste of Domaine Muller's sauvignon blanc, into an ISO wine tasting glass. You swirl it, and sniff, and the wine offers nothing: no bouquet whatsoever.

He then pours you a taste of Domaine Muller sauvignon blanc into a Riedel glass: you swirl it and sniff, and all of a sudden the wine is pummelling you with notes of gorse, sweet coconut, honeysuckle. It is a beauty, but what happened when it was in the small ISO glass?

The answer is simple; the ISO seems to work against the wine, whilst the Riedel works with the wine, offering it up in all its olfactory glory. It's an amazing discovery, and it proves one thing; life is too short, and wine is too good, to be drunk from anything other than a Riedel. We have been using them here at Megabytes for the last few months, and believe us, they simply take wine tasting ­ and wine enjoyment ­ into another world. And, more good news: our Megabytes competition this time gives you the chance to win half a dozen Riedel beauties, just by answering this simple question:

The best selling range of wines in the Mitchell's portfolio are:

A: Domaine Grand Veneur
B; Domaine Sipp Mack
C: Domaine de L'Arjolle

Get those answers rolling in

And we had a huge response to our last competition, which offered three Wines Direct six-packs of super wines to three readers who could answer the question: what were the titles of the two famous books on wine written by the late Richard Olney?
The answer was: Yquem and Romanée ­Conti.

An awful lot of readers knew Yquem, but were distracted by either Ten Vineyard Lunches or French Wine and Food:A Wine Lover's Cookbook. The first three out of the computer's hat with the correct answer were:

Kathryn Curry
Arran Quay
Dublin 7

Joanne Cronin
The Mardyke,
Cork City

Richard O'Sullivan
Kenilworth Lane
Dublin 6

Congratulations; A Wines Direct six pack is on its way!