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by Andrew Holloway July 25, 2024 2 min read
Wine isn't everybody's cup of tea. Some people say wine reeks of elitism and snobbery. There really are quite a few insufferable boneheads out there. Collectors who don't drink. People trying to make a point about how they wish to be seen. Then there's us. I mean us here and you there, dear reader. Wine lovers, wine fanatics and wine freaks. Swollen speech is often the sign of a swollen head. Twenty-five years ago we drank our best wines from really basic hotel stemware. Wines in price up to thirty marks. Suddenly these fancy glasses appeared from Austria, costing around sixty marks. All the cool kids had to have them. Huge glasses. An entire cupboard shelf was taken up by three glasses. Were we the cool kids? Oh yeah!
Do expensive wines taste better in expensive glasses? Do cheaper wines taste better in expensive glasses?
We stocked the glasses. We showed the glasses off. But something wasn't right. If you had to open a really expensive wine to showcase the glass, what were you saying about your values? We showed Bonneau de Martray and Cos D'Estournel. The whole thing rang false. Were we suddenly some kind of super snobs with a fancy wines in a fancy glasses? Eating caviar in a Rolls Royce? So we tried it with everyday wines from good local wineries. Well that really didn't work either. Back then we still longboarded to work in the wine warehouse. Hell, we longboarded in the warehouse. The optics were all wrong. We didn't have to retire the glasses. We didn't need to make a statement about how we had come to the conclusion that these glasses were not a good fit or anything. The glasses all broke within a week. Mostly destroyed during polishing. One simply twisted the stem off the wine glass and it barely made a sound. All of a sudden you're standing there with two equally heavy pieces of a glass in your hands. We never replaced them. We survived the Austrian stemware, swept up the shards and surfed on.
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