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- Glass_A_Day - 05-26-2003
All joking aside, it has been proven in blind tastings, that the same wine tastes different from differnet glasses. Plastic is out for me. Even the rounded edge associated with glass stemware takes away from my drinking experience. I guess for me, breakage is part of the cost of wine drinking. Doesn't mean I have to like it... [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/frown.gif[/img]
- Innkeeper - 05-26-2003
Looking at your entire last post, I conclude the following. The tastings may have been blind, but they could certainly feel the shape and edge of the wine glass, that allowed them to show their prejudices. I have consumed wine out of every immaginable vessel, including the finest. I still drink almost all my wine out the biggest, cheapest available, and do just fine thank you. And, though they are glass, they never break.
Having said that, the good stuff sits on the shelf. When company calls, and we need to use them, we find them all covered with grit and dust, and then it is a pain clean them.
- Glass_A_Day - 05-26-2003
Sorry IK, but it's not that simple. If you think that you will be trying different wines from different glasses and find some better than others and then find that all the wine was the same then the glass has something to do with the tasting experience. Try straight crystal for a while and then try going back. It's a one way street my friend.
- stevebody - 05-26-2003
I'm going to chime in here with the idea that the shape of the glass, rather than the composition, is the prime determining factor in effectiveness of a wine glass. I get my everyday stuf at Cost Plus, at $3.99 a stem, and it's exactly the same size and shape as my Reidels but is not crystal. Works just fine, with no noticeable differences in flavor. I'm a klutz, so I'm going to break my Reidels - not a question of if but when. I can break the Cost Plussers daily and not pop a bead. I start sweating when I bust up a $22 Bordeaux stem. I know what George Reidel says about shape and glass but I suspect that all of us, myself included, are a little swayed by the mere act of using a Reidel, so that the experience becomes far more subjective. Try the Speigelau Bordeaux A/B with the Reidel, blindfolded. I bet you'll find less difference than you think.
- Glass_A_Day - 05-27-2003
The difference between glass and crystal is usually the sharpness of the lip. Glass is generally more rounded, while crystal is rather sharp. Maybe I'm just used to it, but when I use glasses at a restaurant that are glass now, it's not the same when my lips hit the lip of the glass. That's just me though. To some it makes no difference. My wallet wishes it made no differnece to me...
- thewoodman - 05-27-2003
Steve-o
I think the $4.99 stems at cost plus are a better value than the glass. They are virtually identical to my Spiegelau's (with the exception of not having the little "S" on the base.
I agree that the rolled edge on glass is not as nice as crystal, but I also think everday glasses should be reasonably priced.