do you think the shape of the glass influences the taste of the liquid it contains?

Answer 1

In the case of wine, yes.
Having a large, open glass allows for swirling the wine. While some people think that wine drinkers that swirl their glass are just pretentious, it does serve a purpose.
Swirling the wine in a glass allows for more surface area. More surface area allow the wine to breathe more thus more quickly developing the flavor.

Answer 2

Yes. Tast is smell to a very large extent. Something drunk from a bottle , like beer will have more taste when drunk from a glass or mug. The shape of the glass can effect how any aroma may be retained near to the nose, like a wide-mouthed wine glass..

Answer 3

- Narrow glasses are good for Champagne and sparkling wine because it lowers the exposed surface area of the wine, which will keep the wine from going flat too quickly. But then it usually takes me less than two minutes to down a glass of sparkling wine anyway. I like tulip-shaped glasses because they have that small surface area and yet the lip of the glass flares out and is big enough for me to drink out of without damaging my nose. We just got some nice, cheep ones from Pier 1 Imports.

- Wide glasses are good for red wine, for the opposite reason that narrow glasses are good for sparklers. There is more surface area for the wine to “breathe”. I hear breathing is good for wines, especially reds. Perhaps the topic of a future post.

- I’ve heard that you should hold chilled wines (like whites) from the stem so your hands don’t heat up the wine. Although again, I rarely have a wine glass in my hands for too long. It’s either on a table or the wine is already in my belly. I suppose glasses with easy-to-handle stems would be nice for white wines.

- Swirling a wine around in the glass helps aerate and bring out the aromas of a wine. And so I like wine glasses that are easy to swirl in. Bonus points for glasses I can fit my nose into to get a better smell. Wine glasses that are big are good, as are ones with a nice curve to them to facilitate the swirling.

Why do we swirl wine? To allow oxygen to get into the wine: Swirling releases the esters, ethers, and aldehydes that combine with oxygen to yield the bouquet of the wine. In other words, swirling aerates the wine and gives you a better smell.

Smell is the most important part of wine tasting. You can only perceive four tastes-sweet, sour, bitter, and salt-but the average person can smell over 2,000 different scents, and wine has over 200 of its own.

Answer 4

Not the shape of the glass, no but the kind of glass, yes, real glass is awesome, a plastic glass, yuk, beverage tastes like plastic, crystal is very nice.

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

Yes, because it affects how you smell it first. That's why there's different-shaped glasses for different kinds of wine.

Answer 7

no the temperature