Affordable stemware Suggestions

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Yule Kim

Yule Kim
I'm thinking of buying my folks and my sister stemware for Christmas. Anyone have a suggestion for affordable, all-purpose stemware that would be suitable for both red and white wines?

I'm looking for a set of 4-6 glasses for less than $75.
 
Looking around...

I see several entries in the Schott Zwiesel Tritan series at Bed Bath and Beyond in your price range.

Overstock.com has glasses by Susquehanna in that range but with various etched images. Still, I think I could drink from a glass with a fleur-de-lys on it.

This page provides a short review of glassware and a link to a set of 8 Riedel Ouverture glasses on Amazon (and Target) in that range.

It is my opinion that you've already scored most of your points (heh) if you get a thin-lipped glass. Shape certainly does matter some but an all-in-one glass is going to be a compromise by definition.

HTH.
 
Stoelzle makes pretty good inexpensive wine glasses. You can often find them at home goods/tj Maxx but also on Amazon.

They are rather also rather robust.
 
I'll second the recommendation for Schott-Zwiesel Tritan/Forte glasses. Specifically, I like the 17.3 oz size -- great all purpose glassware. We use them in a commercial setting, and despite the fairly thin rim and elegant stem, they're pretty durable through the dish tank. I can't speak to retail pricing, but in terms of wholesale pricing, they were far and away the thinnest, most balanced glasses we could find for the money.
 
if you know someone in the restaurant trade, riedel does a degustazione (sp?) restaurant red for $2.99/stem that is just plain bueno. not for retail sales so gotta buy via restaurant.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
This page provides a short review of glassware and a link to a set of 8 Riedel Ouverture glasses on Amazon (and Target) in that range.
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Thanks for that link, Jeff. I really got sucked into it!

I also checked out their champagne glass article, but I feel like they didn't try a wide enough range of glasses.
 
originally posted by evan hansen:
I'll second the recommendation for Schott-Zwiesel Tritan/Forte glasses. Specifically, I like the 17.3 oz size -- great all purpose glassware. We use them in a commercial setting, and despite the fairly thin rim and elegant stem, they're pretty durable through the dish tank. I can't speak to retail pricing, but in terms of wholesale pricing, they were far and away the thinnest, most balanced glasses we could find for the money.
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I like the Schotts and also the Reidel line that's sold at Target.

For personal use I'm a huge fan of the Gabriel Glas at the moment. I find it a very elegant alternative to the trend towards increasingly YUUUUUGE wine glasses.
 
I was going to get the Schott Zweisels, but I then saw I could get 8 stems for the same price for the Riedel Ouverture Magnum. Also, easy shipping to my parents and to my sister. Thanks everyone for your advice!

Yule
 
I have some Zalto Universals but prefer the Gabriel Glas. (In addition to preferring the looks, we've broken one GG and *four* Zaltos in approximately the same time period.) I don't like the Zaltos other than the Universal because they're just too damn big. The GG is very similar to the Universal but a few millimeters shorter and has a subtly curved side instead of the rigid straight lines that typify the Zaltos. Both the Zalto and GG really are "universal" glasses. There is no wine type that feels wrong in them. But they are not cheap.
 
The machined Gabriel Glas can be found for around $20, and if I hadn't become enamored by the seeming weightlessness of the blown version, I'd have loaded up on the machined.
 
Was at a restaurant tonight where they used the Schott Zwiesel Pure Burgundy glasses and I really liked them. Better than the Tritan line I have at home.
 
We've been using gabriel glas machine at home for several months now, and are very pleased. They are the best value, I think, in the Zalto clone category.
 
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