What size and shape wine glass?

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If you drink wine, do you have a preferred shape and size of glass? Wine tasters recommend particular shapes to maximise the bouquet. I prefer a smaller wine glass - I rather resent the restaurant trend for huge glasses which hold a 3rd of a bottle of wine in one go! Do you have a favourite size and shape?
 
The heck with the glass, just drink from the bottle!:drink: I think that depends on the wine. I like large balloon type glasses for reds, where you can swirl the wine around to"open it up". With whites, which are usually served cold, I prefer a Champagne type glass. Desert wine, like eiswein, I prefer in an aperitif or cordial glass.
 
Back in UK I had a set of glasses that each held a 70 cl bottle full. Obviously I was sufficiently couth to only half fill them.

{They were a present from the brother-in-law}
 
The advantage of large wine glasses is that you should get more prawns in your prawn cocktail.
 
I can credit some of the birth of my son to buying 10 oz. martini glasses not long beforehand.
 
Yorky said:
The advantage of large wine glasses is that you should get more prawns in your prawn cocktail.
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Another advantage is telling your doctor that you only drink two glasses of wine a day which sounds much better than two bottles a day.

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Back in the '70s, there was a chain of novelty stores called Spencer's in many of the malls. They carried huge beer mugs and wine glasses the had "I Bet You Can't" printed on them.
 
I much prefer stemware in the manner Craigsy described. I'm not sure i'd like the newer wine glasses that look like thin snifter with its stem cut off.

Oh, and yes, a snifter of Cuvee Du Cent Cinquantenaire Gran Marnier, and a Cuban cigar.

My knees just buckled at the thought.
 
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