The Austrian glassware company Riedel, for instance, makes a glass for dessert wine that is curved into a tulip shape in order to launch the wine away from thetipofthetongue and onto the middle and side ofthetongue.
"The only way I can sum it up is like when you're trying to remember the name of a famous actor or film star and it's on thetipof your tongue, but you just can't get it, " he said.