Wine Glasses, Decanters etc

[qaz]

My Wine Guy now have Zalto Universal/Bordeaux/White (unfortunately not Burgundy) 2pks for $110-$115 (less with $30 voucher) in case @wineflyer can no longer help with wholesale prices

 

[pagingjoan]

Zalto glasses are superb, as I have probably posted previously.
Prince has the Universal listed at the moment at $55 also.
The Burgundy is $65 per unit.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

How many bottle of Gin were needed to fill those babies?

Do you mean the glasses or......

 

[qaz]

Plumm 4pk Vintage Sparkling, WhiteA, or WhiteB $40 @ eBay Myer using P20MY for 20% off - ends today

 

[Cruiser Elite]

So I am sitting in the Ozzie Wine Bar in Beijing having a drink with owner Steve who is originally from Gold Coast - I notice them pouring wine into these glasses - I have never seen these before.

Steve said be bought them cheap as chips off some Chinese web site and the ladies just adore them - said most females now only drink out of these and refuse traditional glasses

Do I need to get out more?

 

[afro]

So I am sitting in the Ozzie Wine Bar in Beijing having a drink with owner Steve who is originally from Gold Coast - I notice them pouring wine into these glasses - I have never seen these before.

Steve said be bought them cheap as chips off some Chinese web site and the ladies just adore them - said most females now only drink out of these and refuse traditional glasses
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Do I need to get out more?

Chinese website? If it is from taobao then there’s a very high chance that it is broken glasses people pick them up from the rubbish bins and re-made them.

They are clean as burning the sharp edges off in a fire oven will kill the germs.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

I don’t think so afro- see this: Wine glasses

But I bought 6ea of these:

 

[juddles]

So I am sitting in the Ozzie Wine Bar in Beijing having a drink with owner Steve who is originally from Gold Coast - I notice them pouring wine into these glasses - I have never seen these before.

Steve said be bought them cheap as chips off some Chinese web site and the ladies just adore them - said most females now only drink out of these and refuse traditional glasses
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Do I need to get out more?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Where do I start??

I will begin with expressing my intense disdain for those sloping-topped glasses - hopefully in my rage I will manage to get back to them.....

There is a constant battle, IMHO, in most areas of human experience, between finding a truly great thing, and conforming with the "trends" or "fashion" that are required by those whose need is to simply peddle new wares.

Stemmed glasses are functional. Truly so. Grabbing a stem serves two main functions - it avoids temperature contamination, and keeps the precious liquid in an unmarred clean receptacle where you can admire it in all its beauty, without filthy fingerprints. The size and shape of this can also be important, for capturing and focussing aroma, but this is neither here nor there in the stem vs stemless debate.

IMHO you just can not better a "traditional" red wine glass. Brands are unimportant - find something you personally love. My favorite glass I have humped between three continents and is now delicately nestled in an earthquake-proof position in Chile. I cannot even recall the brand. But it is quality crystal, beautiful lip, perfect weight and capacity. For me. And I do not give a rat's behind what anyone else thinks. I REJOICE in using it, every time. So respect your personal likes.

Time and again, boringly predictable, is the short term pressure to change. Endless new fads. Endless new fashions. Endless new generationsthinking they have come up with something super-cool.

My teenage daughter is loving a new fad in the fashion stakes - "threaded earrings". Yes, they are different. But she was tad less enthusiastic about these when we explained, as tireless parents, that such things were actually invented long ago, and periodically become fashionable.

I remember in the 1970's (I was a kid) when some of my parents friends became involved in pottery. It was seriously fashionable (avant garde) back then in that place. I recall, even though I was but a child, when said friend proudly showed off the latest colourful and irregular-shaped pottery mug he had created, to my father. My old man was not into "fashion". He respectfully examined the piece. He examined the surface, felt the weight, tested the handle. He quietly put it down and said to the friend "congratulations. You have managed to put back the art of pottery approximate 2000 years".

Stuff fashion!! It is such a passing game.

Get a glass that YOU like. Make it impeccably clean. Treat it with respect, no matter the brand or the price you paid for it - these are meaningless. Fill it with something you like, and imbibe with a real friend. This is where perfection occurs.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Crikey! I was only asking had anybody seen these before - wasn’t expecting a lecture!

 

[juddles]

Sorry - was not a lecture Just releasing some steam

Edit: clearly I suffer from my upbringing - anyone know a decent shrink that can hold my hand to overcome seeing adults making pottery in Woomera (deep desert South Aussie) in the 70's??

 

[Cruiser Elite]

We all have problems mate!

 

[juddles]

We all have problems mate!

Which can all be drowned.....

 

[JessicaTam]

Which can all be drowned.....

... but only in the right glass.

- Sorry, couldn't resist!

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Well there is another one who won’t be getting an invite coz the vino cups may not be up to scratch - course it would be a shame to have a bit of fun when you have friends around - still we all march to a different beat huh?

Gotta look on the bright side though - them pesky Chinese tourists might just stay home coz they prefer the slanting lip wine glasses in local surrounds.

Not sorry, couldn’t resist

 

[cove]

We made a mistake buying wine glasses that were slightly flared at the top some years ago. The problem is they get chipped by the teeth of drinkers.

 

[afro]

I don’t think so afro- see this: Wine glasses

But I bought 6ea of these:
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just looking at the price alone, the one from evasolo cost over $20 euro and the chinese website cost only $6rmb($1.50 aud) at most, thats a replica for sure. i'd be very surprise if they deliver to you with a "evasolo" box.

 

[afro]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Where do I start??

I will begin with expressing my intense disdain for those sloping-topped glasses - hopefully in my rage I will manage to get back to them.....

There is a constant battle, IMHO, in most areas of human experience, between finding a truly great thing, and conforming with the "trends" or "fashion" that are required by those whose need is to simply peddle new wares.

Stemmed glasses are functional. Truly so. Grabbing a stem serves two main functions - it avoids temperature contamination, and keeps the precious liquid in an unmarred clean receptacle where you can admire it in all its beauty, without filthy fingerprints. The size and shape of this can also be important, for capturing and focussing aroma, but this is neither here nor there in the stem vs stemless debate.

IMHO you just can not better a "traditional" red wine glass. Brands are unimportant - find something you personally love. My favorite glass I have humped between three continents and is now delicately nestled in an earthquake-proof position in Chile. I cannot even recall the brand. But it is quality crystal, beautiful lip, perfect weight and capacity. For me. And I do not give a rat's behind what anyone else thinks. I REJOICE in using it, every time. So respect your personal likes.

Time and again, boringly predictable, is the short term pressure to change. Endless new fads. Endless new fashions. Endless new generationsthinking they have come up with something super-cool.

My teenage daughter is loving a new fad in the fashion stakes - "threaded earrings". Yes, they are different. But she was tad less enthusiastic about these when we explained, as tireless parents, that such things were actually invented long ago, and periodically become fashionable.

I remember in the 1970's (I was a kid) when some of my parents friends became involved in pottery. It was seriously fashionable (avant garde) back then in that place. I recall, even though I was but a child, when said friend proudly showed off the latest colourful and irregular-shaped pottery mug he had created, to my father. My old man was not into "fashion". He respectfully examined the piece. He examined the surface, felt the weight, tested the handle. He quietly put it down and said to the friend "congratulations. You have managed to put back the art of pottery approximate 2000 years".

Stuff fashion!! It is such a passing game.

Get a glass that YOU like. Make it impeccably clean. Treat it with respect, no matter the brand or the price you paid for it - these are meaningless. Fill it with something you like, and imbibe with a real friend. This is where perfection occurs.

agree.it is a personal preference, even some glasses from ikea is better than big brands but personally i prefer a lighter weight glass. once you picked one up, you don't want to pick up the heavy glass again.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

How cool are these labels to affix to wine botts for personalised gifts?



NZ$7.50ea in a little gift store in CHC

 

[Buzzard]

How cool are these labels to affix to wine botts for personalised gifts?

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NZ$7.50ea in a little gift store in CHC

And you don't look a day over 59

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Youngest sister Paula turns 60 end of May - I will do her 2 bots - one with her name on it and other with 60th on it:



And they do actually look much better mounted: