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Brand: Riedel
Category: Kitchen

List Price: ~~$29.50~~
Buy New: $21.89
You Save: $7.61 (26%)

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

14 reviews
Sales Rank: 29164

Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 12 x 4 x 4

MPN: 414/97
Model: 414/97
UPC: 632868414974
EAN: 0632868414974
ASIN: B00018HSHE

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	Trendy glasses fits in smaller cabinets, mini bars, picnic baskets and more
•	Holds 20-3/4 ounces of wine, stands 3-5/8-inches tall
•	Machine made of non-lead glass
•	Safe to use in dishwasher
•	Made in Germany

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Quality meets casual. The Riedel Stemless O Wine Glasses are the newest revolution in glassware. Casual yet elegant, these wine glasses are appropriate for fine wine enjoyment, as well as casual sipping. The wine glasses were shaped to fit into a dishwasher and fine-tuned to enhance the pleasure of your favorite wine varietals. In keeping with the Riedel glassware tradition, these wine glasses have become the benchmark for stemless glassware. Machine made in Germany of lead-free crystal. Gift boxed in sets of 2. Dishwasher Safe. Size: 3-5/8"H x 3-1/4" Dia., 20-3/4 oz. Riedel Model # 414/97

Amazon.com
Founded in 1756, Austria's Riedel Crystal is the world's premier manufacturer of wine glasses and has always catered to the fine wine connoisseur. However, these wine tumblers are the company's first attempt at producing a lower priced wine glass for casual entertaining. Like Riedel's prestigious Vinum series of glasses, these tumblers are specifically designed for a particular grape varietal and still maintain their ability to enhance the flavors and aromas of the wines they were intended for. The only difference is that the tumblers are missing their stems, making them slightly less delicate to handle, more modern in appearance, and easier to fit in smaller cabinets, mini bars, picnic baskets, and the dishwasher.

The O series of glasses are made of machine-made of non-leaded glass. The large bowl shape of the two glasses in this set is specifically recommended to unleash the rich bouquet of white wines, such as Chardonnay. Each glass holds 20-3/4 ounces of wine, stands 3-5/8 inches tall, and is completely dishwasher-safe. --Cristina Vaamonde

Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

Lovely glass, hard to hold January 21, 2008
These wine tumblers are typical of Reidel's high quality, but I find them a little hard to hold, and my hands are not particularly small. In any case, they couldn't be easier to clean and store, and I love using a wine glass without a stem. Highly recommended for wine lovers with big mitts!

2 out of 5 stars

Like lapping wine from a saucer. . . December 31, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

This is a rather large glass, a bit clumsy to hold without the stem and in a comparison tasting, it seemed to me that the smaller Ouverture sized bowls evoked a richer aroma from Chardonnay.
A great deal of your experience of wine comes from the aromas that develop in the air above the surface of the wine. A glass that forces the wine to have a large surface area for its volume and then narrows to concentrate the vapors will increase the flavor experience. Glasses with a thin lip seem to interfere less with the taste of wine than thicker (and cheaper) glasses. The shape of the glass makes a difference, too. Since we can only smell molecules that are in the air, the best wine-tasting glass is going to promote evaporation by exposing the largest possible surface area to the air. These glasses are wide at the waist and narrow at the top to get more from their wine. Does it make a difference? You bet-and in every taste test that I've been part of, Riedel glasses win hands down.
For more information on the factors that effect the taste of wine-Storage, Air, Temperature, Food and Context, see New Short Course in Wine,The The wine simply tastes better in these glasses. The red wine Ouverture glasses are as close to an all-purpose glass as any and they're very inexpensive.
It shouldn't be necessary to mention that a wine glass should be clean and odorless. But sometimes restaurants, in their zeal to make their glassware clean use rinsing aids that leave behind a strong mineral smell. If you're spending a lot of money on a bottle of wine in a restaurant, sniff the empty glass first. At home, a film of grease can settle on a previously clean glass. It's no reflection on the quality of the housekeeping-cooking fats disperse in the air and settle on everything in a kitchen. An additional rinsing and a wipe with a clean towel are all you need.

Lynn Hoffman, author of New Short Course in Wine,The and the tasty bang BANG: A Novel

4 out of 5 stars

tumblers October 17, 2007
very lovely fragile tumblers, but too large to hold comfortably, woman's hand, very nice for male, larger hand, maybe to drink scotch

5 out of 5 stars

Classy and Delicate January 23, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I love the reidel line of wine glasses, both stemless and with stems. They are delicate though so not for the clumsy (although maybe stemless is better for the klutz since it has less opportunity to fall over). They make great gifts!

5 out of 5 stars

not a gimmick---the real deal January 12, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

The Riedel "O" concept glasses may take a short while to accept, but once one realizes that a quality wine glass does not require a stem the rewards are many. The "O" glass line of products have made legendary glass maker Riedel's products affordable for the masses, while injecting an element of practicality for daily use. As a current owner of both traditional higher- priced Riedel stemware and these newer products, I find our "O" glasses are getting much higher use. They truly do enhance the flavors of good quality wines, while helping the wine drinker collect multiple glass ware designs at reasonable prices. I now have five different "O" styles on the shelf, yet these wide mouth Chardonnay glasses seem to get the biggest workout: they somehow do have the capability of bringing out the nuances of a wine, even for us less sophisticated buyers. Plus, my wife loves popping them in the dishwasher!

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