Sales Rank: 281


Features:

8-7/8 inches tall; capacity of 21-1/2 ounces

Six glasses for young, full-bodied red wines

Glass design enhances taste of wines such as Bordeaux, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Rioja

Machine-made, 24-percent lead crystal

Made in Austria by world's premier wine glass maker

Average Rating:
Rating: - In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a Riedel Glass Decree
Riedel's glasses are neither mere kitchen implements nor mundane drinking vessles; they are a sensuous romp, alive with blood and flesh. The Bordeaux glasses in particular are perhaps the pinnacle of their creation. With the soft, smooth fullness of a woman's breast, they draw one's mind away form the cares of the world and back to the generous bounty of the French countryside.

Their capaciousness allows the nose fully to enter the glass upon drinking, to allow all the earthy scents so representative of great Bordeaux wines to enhance the flavor and bring the wine to display all its charms.

While they are not of the legendary Riedel mouth-blown Sommelier lineage, they suffer little from this fact. The hands that wrought those sublime designs also created these goblets. If you believe that in vino veritas, then these pathways to truth are not something of which you should deprive yourself.

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Rating: - Worth the price
I think these glasses are wonderful. In addition to making the wine smell and taste better, the large size makes it easy to properly swirl the wine. THis allows you to see it better and of course to smell it better, which improves the taste.

One word of warning, if you are just using these for having wine with dinner, beware, since they are so large, it's easy to pour a lot more than you think. About half a glass is at least as much as a full glass of a smaller type of wine glass.

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Rating: - Such a Beautiful but Defective Glasses!
I just received my set. The glasses are so... beautiful! Yet, 5 out of 6 are defective!! What a big disappointment! I have been looking forward to receiving my first Riedel....Amazon.com provides great deal which I got $80 for 6 glasses, but they were obviously factory seconds! So disappointed! However, the design of the glass are beautiful!! I am still returning them! So sad!...... :(