An interesting experience with different Riedel glasses

After the seminal experience at the Riedel wine glass tasting, we had been careful to use the "correct" wine glasses when we drink at home. Sometimes with friends, we would try out some incorrect matchings to illustrate the difference one gets with using different wine glasses. (We have subsequently found the same with Chinese tea as well). One day whilst we were with friends, we poured the white Burgundy from the Chardonnay glass (which was the recommended one in the Vinum range) into the Burgundy glass (the fat bellied Pinot Noir glass). Instead of a diminution of the nose, it actually amplified the bouquet and we thought we had stumbled onto something fantastic. Then we put the wine into the mouth. It was quite disappointing. Not only did it not live up to the promise of the nose, it was in fact inferior to the palate one gets using the Chardonnay glass. As it normally happens in these "experiments", tasting the wine back in the recommended glass gives the desired (and best) effect. So we had not picked up on an oversight of the design team at Riedel after all!