Wine glasses? Which ones?

[hutash]

Yep, they are great for pouring two buck Chuck.

Stemless wine glasses are like snowlerblades on a pow day. It is just esthetically wrong.

$75 glasses, $600 loafers good wine, definitely not 1st world problem.

[Alaskan Rover]

Reidel "O" for all around drinking - really a red shape but if you're not motivated to buy two or three sets of glasses, I'm going to venture a guess that you're not buying whites of a high enough quality to be effected by glass shape.

There ye go, Ricorides....snooty enough for ya??

My own personal pet peev is when people mistakenly pour wine into a stemmed WATER glass. Might as well use a shoe. Other than that, I'm pretty easy going. Wine glasses can run the gamut in price and shape. I mean, a wine-tasters glass has a special shape to it for swirling just right. Great for tasting, not necessarily for drinking.

I think you can actually get by fine with ONE shape. There is a generic shape just a little fuller than a white wine shape, that works well enough. Just make sure it remains concave throughout the inner glass....none of those cylindrical or convex depravities. You'll want the upper glass thin enough to hold a nice tone when touched, but not so thin as to be uncomfortable on the lips.

A wine glass should really have some elemental grace to it, like the lady that shares your table, and thus becomes a chalice worthy of that luscious, sensual nectar.

I use a shape like this for all my wines:



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In a pinch I've used these, and they seem to work just fine....and much sturdier on the table, too. You can always cap 'em if things get rowdy.

I'm fine with either route.

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[iceman]

Skippy peanut butter jars work great, if you can find the glass ones.

[Rico in Flag]

Thanks everyone. I knew there are some serious wine snobs here. Going shopping today! By the looks of things here, he Riedel O burgundy seems to be the one
Some of you have astutely figured out that I am not, and will never be, a snooty, pinky-finger-sticking-out, wine drinker. I was once told by a fairly serious wine connosieur, that you don't have to spend more than $15 for a decent bottle. However, I do appreciate a decent wine every now and then. And so I am looking for a good, do it all glass, that will serve well for a majority of wines. The simple facts are, I don't have the cabinet space for an arsenal of glasses, nor do I have the sophisticated palate that would demand a specific glass for each wine.
Stemmed? No. I beak wine glasses every time I wash them (by hand!). Jelly jars? No! Well, actually it works just fine for me, however, I am looking for something that looks decent on the table when we have friends over for dinner, or special evenings.
Honestly, I am proudly a beer guy through and through. In fact, much more of beer snob than I ever will be a wine snob.
Thanks!

[Phill]

Honestly a bordeaux glass shape will be much better for most reds than a burgundy shape.

Stemmed? No. ......I am looking for something that looks decent on the table when we have friends over for dinner, or special evenings.

I quite like stemless glasses but if you're looking for something that looks nice, they might be a touch avant garde.

[systemoverblow'd]

Stemless for red. Only reason to have a stemmed glass is so the heat of your body doesn't wamr the chilled white wine. And for a dinner, you aren't holding your glass you are grabbing it for a sip so unless you are having a party where people will be standing holding their glasses there is no reason for stemmed glasses.

[hutash]

Other then stemmed glasses just look better IMHO especially as part of a table setting. For every day use a mason jar or a a stemless glass is fine, but depending on you table setting stems just look more elegant.

[Cruiser]

We drink our cheap (sub $35ish) wine out of bonne maman mason jars almost exclusively. I have a service for 12 going so that all the homies and kinfolk can have matching gear. Doesn't bother me when one gets broken either since I always have a jar of jelly going in the fridge.



At work I taste everything out of a large Riedel "Wine Series" pinot noir glass. I use them at home for nicer reds and whites too. I find that the burgundy bowl shape allows me to better evaluate the aromatics of pretty much any kind of wine, sparklers included, since it helps to concentrate the aromas created by swirling.

[Mustonen]

Another vote for stemless.

I drink my beer out of them too. [/cowboys starter jacket]

[Bobby Stainless]

Anything that is durable.

[summit]

IKEA or Target. Replace every year or three.

[gretch6364]

More important question would be...do you have a decanter?

[PNWbrit]

Stemless is a better interface between Golden Retriever's tail and coffee table while sitting on couch drinking wine in front of TV.

[hutash]

^^^Says the man who drinks his wine by the pint.

[Alaskan Rover]

We drink our cheap (sub $35ish) wine out of bonne maman mason jars almost exclusively. I have a service for 12 going so that all the homies and kinfolk can have matching gear. Doesn't bother me when one gets broken either since I always have a jar of jelly going in the fridge.



At work I taste everything out of a large Riedel "Wine Series" pinot noir glass. I use them at home for nicer reds and whites too. I find that the burgundy bowl shape allows me to better evaluate the aromatics of pretty much any kind of wine, sparklers included, since it helps to concentrate the aromas created by swirling.

Sounds like nice3 work! Where do you work?

[XXX-er]

if you have to ask ... I would buy a 20$ cheap 4 or 6pack of something that you like the look of and personaly I like the look of the "white wine glass" but YMMV

we have some stainless steel wine glasses from MEC at teh GF's house, I like real glass more ...but we haven t broken any of the set

[irul&ublo]

Wine glasses? Which ones?

Definite First World problem

[DJSapp]

My dad got one of these for xmas. Classy as shit.

[bagtagley]

Pops got sick of broken lead crystal and stocked up on titanium crystal. Nice, bright glass, and strong as fuck. He grabbed two out of the D/W and smacked 'em together...not a mark on 'em

[Mustonen]

I do most of my drinking out of this:

[mnflyfish]

Target end cap clearance! Not that cheap Walmart glass- I have class!

[Lonnie]