Which Riedel Wine Glass Should You Choose?
- The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make. - Robert M. Parker Jr. The Wine Advocate.
Andi Healey
Web Manager
Riedel is famous for being the inventors of the specialised wine glass. That particular grape varieties taste better in certain shapes of glass has been widely accepted for the past 30 years or so. However, this means that the array of available Riedel wine glasses can be somewhat overwhelming.
Your first decision as a Riedel purchaser will be which collection most suits your budget and taste. Once you have made that decision, the rest is much easier as you build your collection of grape-specific glasses within that range.
I've put together a few thoughts to help you decide which range is the one for you.
Riedel Vinum Glasses
Vinum was the first grape-specific, machine-made series of glasses in history and remains Riedel's best selling range, combining quality and value. Perfect for everyday use.
Our standard price less than £22 per glass.
Riedel Extreme Glasses
Extreme was produced to showcase and enhance the intense structure and concentration of New World wines.
Our standard price less than £17 per glass.
Riedel Veritas Glasses
Veritas is 15% taller than Vinum, but 25 % lighter and finer, whilst maintaining dishwasher safety, break resistance and being suitable for long term, daily use at home.
Our standard price less than £25 per glass.
Riedel Veloce Glasses
The Riedel Veloce Glasses look and feel handmade! This new glass collection is, in fact, produced by machine, using new, cutting-edge technologies and is a true precision tool.
Our standard price less than £25 per glass.
Riedel O Glasses
Riedel O is a grape variety-specific stemless wine tumbler, based on the benchmark shapes of Riedel's best-selling Vinum range.
O is an innovative take on the casual wine glass for total wine enjoyment. It fits into every dishwasher and broken stems are a thing of the past!
Our standard price less than £12 per glass.
Riedel Sommeliers Glasses
Each Sommeliers glass is individually made using methods developed over centuries. Introduced in 1973, Sommeliers is the pinnacle of Riedel's varietal specific glassware. Acclaimed by wine writers and experts around the World, the finest glasses you can give your wine.
Riedel Sommeliers range from £87.95 per glass.
Riedel Superleggero Glasses
"Superleggero": the name says it all, because these beautiful glasses are "super light". The glasses in this lead-free, hand-made glass series are perfectly balanced instruments for drinking pleasure, which not only impress with their lightness, but also with their slimmer appearance.
Our standard price less than £45 per glass.
Riedel Ouverture Glasses
Ouverture is Riedel's entry level series for customers who appreciate good, reasonably priced wine. It is a nonvarietal specific collection, of ten fine crystal glasses, that will increase the owner‘s drinking pleasure of wine, beer and spirits.
Our standard price less than £12 per glass.
Riedel Performance Glasses
Performance is a technologically advanced and user-friendly collection of grape varietal specific glasses, whose unique shape increases the inner surface area of the glass, intensifying the perception of the wine’s bouquet and flavour.
Our standard price less than £25 per glass.
Riedel High Performance Glasses
Performance is a technologically advanced and user-friendly collection of grape varietal specific glasses, whose unique shape increases the inner surface area of the glass, intensifying the perception of the wine’s bouquet and flavour.
Our standard price less than £25 per glass.
Riedel Fatto a Mano Glasses
“Fatto a Mano”, meaning hand-made in Italian, is Riedel's stunning new stemware collection. It bears the typical attributes of a Riedel product: varietal specific, thin blown and unadorned, but standing tall on slender, coloured stems.
Our standard price less than £66 per glass.
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Riedel Tumbler Glasses
Spirits and cocktail connoisseurs are discovering the versatility of these stylish Riedel Tumblers.
With both decorated, heavy based glasses for nostalgic drinks enjoyment as well as equally, lighter-weight, blown glasses which remain as popular as ever.
Our standard price less than £12 per glass.
Riedel Winewings Glasses
The Riedel Winewings range has a flat and stretched bottom, with a wing-like shape to increase the surface area between wine and air, which increases the levels of evaporation and develops a greater intensity of aroma. When positioning one’s head to the glass, the nose is closer and is exposed to the wider surface of the wine.
However, this alone would not fully deliver the optimal aroma of each grape variety and so, to capture the delicate layered aromas, it was necessary to curve the glass walls and to correctly calibrate the opening of each glass with its ideal rim diameter.
Our standard price less than £26 per glass.
Riedel Barware Glasses
The Riedel Barware collection answered the need for cocktail-specific glassware among restaurants and bars, with glasses perfected for thousands of cocktails.
The glasses are based off the traditional serves for seven classic cocktails: The Old Fashioned, Manhattan, Daiquiri, Sour, Peasant, Buck and Julep.
Our standard price less than £13 per glass.
Fiona – Originally I bought 4 sets of varietal specific Veritas glasses (white, chardonnay, pinot noir, cabernet). In under 2 years, all of them broke, in almost all cases the stem. Half the time it was the dishwasher, half the time it was hand washing. I switched to Vinum and those were significantly more durable. I’ve broken a few here and there, Vinum usually broke somewhere around the bowl of the glass, mostly because of falling over/clumsy friends, and the edge of the quartz kitchen sink counter clamed two. I’d say 75% of them have survived, 4 years later. If you’re not as “delicate” as Veritas would like you to be, Vinum is the glass for you.
Sadly I have just broken one of my vitis cabernet glasses, what is the best match for this glass (looks and performance).
I have looked but am a little confused which way to go for a replacement.