Stemless wine glasses

[Abbey Marie]

Yea or Nay?

[retiredman]

for red wine only, if any.

one needs the stem to hold for white wine to avoid transferring body heat to the chilled wine.

[darin]

Absolutely Abbey!

-Cp got some of those from Costco. They taste VERY well - even slightly better than the stemmed variety.

Red wines don't like "body-transfered heat" any more than Whites - so that comment is silly.

Pour reds or white into them with confidence! Don't set either on a hot plate, or cup them with both hands and you'll have no problem with the dreaded "heat transfer".

[gabosaurus]

My sister is the wine drinker in our family. She once told me that the stemless wine glasses were to avoid transferring body heat to the wine.

[Sitarro]

How will you be able to swirl the wine and check for "legs" while looking cool and knowledgeable without the stem? Watch "Sideways" again and you will see that Paul Giamatti would never use stemless glasses.

[darin]

I always swirl my glass on a table top anyway...so stemless = No affect on taste of the wine with the added benefit of being MUCH easier to load in the dishwasher.



Interesting:

Some people think that the taste of the wine gets harmed by holding the bowl of the glass directly with the hand, so the stem keeps that body heat away from the wine.

Actually, wine glass shapes come down through history as glass replicas of ancient brass goblets. These had very large bowls, difficult to hold in one hand, so the stem made it easier to handle. As glassware improved, the look stayed the same, although much smaller.

So the real answer is that we like the way stemware looks.

[Mr. P]

Oh heck...if yer not gonna go for a bite of etiquette and tradition just use a damn coffee cup.

[Gaffer]

Oh heck...if yer not gonna go for a bite of etiquette and tradition just use a damn coffee cup.

Or drink out of the bottle.

[Abbey Marie]

I think their main attraction is they do not tip over as easily. I have tipped over a few stems in my day. Always red, of course, and always onto someone's light-colored rug.

But they also remind me a little of my elderly Italian grandfather, drinking a cheap red out of a juice glass.

[diuretic]

Definitely nay - I might be a bit old-fashioned but you can't beat, for aesthetics if nothing else, a wine glass with a long stem - red or white.

As for coffee cups Mr.P - real winos drink Thunderbird out of Vegemite jars

[5stringJeff]

If you have kids in the house, no. Otherwise, I'd have to agree with diuretic - the aesthetics of stemmed glasses work for me, body heat issues notwithstanding.

[Mr. P]

Hey, it's all about the end result anyway, to swirl it and sniff it, serve it in this or that doesn't change that..the delivery method is all fluff...

[Immanuel]

Oh heck...if yer not gonna go for a bite of etiquette and tradition just use a damn coffee cup.

Bullshit... just pass the bottle.

I ain't got cooties.

Immie

Sorry, Gaffer, I didn't read down far enough.

[darin]

Keep in mind the glass shape can influence the taste of the swill.

[hjmick]

Eh, it's all sour grapes to me. Give me a nice micro-brew any day.