Does wine taste better when you have it out of a bigger glass? The answer in my opinion depends. If the wine is good, a big glass will make it better - most of the time. I do not believe you have to always get wrapped up in what's a Bordeaux glass in particular and so on , but a nice large well made Stem made for a Cabernet or other full bodied wine can actually deliver. Deliver what? Enormous aromas that are released easier when drinking from a bigger stem and which will give you more palate pleasure.

Younger Bolder Red Wines

If there's one type or style of wine that benefits from a pleasant size glass, it is brash young reds that have great body and scent, but maybe are also young and need the extra space in a giant glass to stretch out and air - kind of like a mini decanter. Even if you're someone who does not sit and smell a wine for 5 mins before drinking it ( ahem...that's me by the way ), the smell of a wine will effect the taste and your full capturing of the flavor. It just does. Try a good full body wine and pour it in to a little glass, you know the kind you'll get at a pizza restaurant or something and pour some into a nice size Cabernet Bordeaux glass. The wine will open up quicker, give off stronger aroma and taste much better. Why not drink your best wines in stemware that gives you the best method of enjoyment?

Lighter Bodied Reds and Whites

I enjoy good wines with good sized glasses at low pours. That is's just me and there are few rules. I don't even drink poo out of flutes. I use white wine glasses. I like an enormous bowl, love to swirl and sniff so lighter bodied reds such as Chianti, Classic Style Pinot Noirs, Malbecs and others work fine for me in bigger stemware. Full bodied Chardonnays can be big and bold with a giant red style wine glass as well .

Not all wines benefit from more real estate in the stem for me. Older wines that are past their top and cheaper everyday bottles will only fade out faster or just taste worse than they'd out of a little glass with a high pour!

You can drink your wine from beautifull colorful wine glasses to bring that extra designer atmosphere in your own livingroom. You can find different color glasses like black stem wine glasses and pink wine glasses

These are principally preferences by yours really and actually more opinion than fact. There's very tiny about wine enjoyment that's based on fact. Still, do yourself a favor and drink your best wines out of a nice big glass and get your whole head in there!