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RIEDEL

Sommeliers Series

Professor Claus J. Riedel was the first designer to recognize that the bouquet, taste, balance and finish of wines are affected by the shape of the glass by which they are drunk.

Forty years ago he began his pioneering work to create stemware that would match and complement different wines and spirits. In the late 1950’s, RIEDEL started to produce glasses which at the time were a design revolution. Thin-blown, unadorned, reducing the design to its essence: Bowl, stem, base. Working with experienced tasters, RIEDEL discovered that wine enjoyed from his glasses showed more depth and better balance than when served in other glasses. Claus J. Riedel laid the groundwork for stemware which was functional as well as beautiful, and made according to the Bauhaus design principle: form follows function.

In 1961 a revolutionary concept was introduced; when the RIEDEL catalogue featured the first line of wine glasses create din different sizes and shapes. Before this, conventional stemware had used a single basic bowl shape; with only the size varying depend on use. The concept was illustrated to perfection with the introduction of the SOMMELIERS series in 1973, which achieved world wide recognition. A glass was born that turns a sip into a celebration – a wines best friend – fine tuned to match the grape!

Thanks to worldwide demand, Sommeliers is now the wineglass benchmark and the most successful series of hand-made glasses in the world. Each glass is individually made: the upper parts blown into a mould, the stem and base hand-crafted. Sommeliers are executed in over 24% lead crystal.

We invite you to share this fascinating and unique experience. You don’t need to be a wine writer, a wine maker or an expert to taste the difference that a RIEDEL glass can make.

“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

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Riedel Sommeliers Bordeaux Grand Cru Glass

Lead Crystal, Mouth-Blown, Hand-Made

$129.00

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