Shortly before dinner the other night, we decided to open a bottle of wine that we had purchased at a Virginia winery. Noticing a spot on one of the glasses, I washed one of the glasses and proceeded to pour the wine. Minutes later as I began to enjoy my wine and describe how good it was, my husband shook his head and said that something was wrong with it. It wasn’t good at all. Now the wine was somewhat sweet but I tasted it again and still thought it was delightful. Then I checked his glass of wine. The wine’s great aroma that my glass had wasn’t the same as his glass. The same bottle of wine, the same style of wineglass so what was different. We discovered that the recently washed wineglass still had a lingering of dish detergent. This in turn affected the aroma of wine and as aroma is tied into taste, the overall great taste of what was a wonderful wine was destroyed. Some experts suggest not using any detergent only hot (not too hot) water to wash the stemware. Others suggest using just a little detergent and rinsing with very warm water. Best of all check with the manufacturer.