Meet the brandy snifter, a sophisticated friend to booze. The brandy snifter is a glass that takes itself very seriously. The wide, curvy—almost Rubenesque—vessel for the consumption of such ...

If you're curious about where the snifter shape came from, look to the early 20th-century. Thanks to phylloxera, cognac was a scarce commodity, and as a result it achieved a high-status association.

Cognac has a bit of a bad rap -- cue the guy in a smoking jacket, cigar tucked between his fingers, sitting in front of a fire, swirling a snifter. Turns out that's all wrong. For starters ...

This week's Snifter features haunted pubs, the Sloe Gin World Champion competition and one pub which celebrated its anniversary with a '90s boy band, Three Brakspear pubs in Henley-on-Thames, ...

Apparently stout is best, so I can see a whole new marketing campaign for Diageo. Mrs Snifter is less delighted with this news and is insisting I at least use a coaster on the bedside table. Up until ...

The best glass for bourbon is a snifter, which has a bulbous body and a short stem. Glencairn and túath glasses, which are the same apart from a rim that flares open wide again on the latter ...