Can you recommend a port glass?
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djewesbury
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Re: Can you recommend a port glass?
I have a variety of port glasses, some rather expensive. I discovered quite recently that IKEA make cheap white wine glasses that are an extremely good size and shape for port. I use them at home for my own consumption. If I break one, I don't care. They have a thin 'cut' lip, not a rolled one, and they're quite generous. My 'good' glasses are used much less often now.
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Re: Can you recommend a port glass?
I have 18 of the Reidels from the Sandeman lodge and I don't think I have broken any.
I wonder if the glasses they make for the trade are made with tougher glass?
I wonder if the glasses they make for the trade are made with tougher glass?
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
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Clearly I am insufficiently manly, as I have only been able to break 1 Riedel Vinum glass in all my years of drinking Port.
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Re: Can you recommend a port glass?
In fairness the port glasses from Reidel have survived better than the bigger glasses. By contrast I bounced one of my Dartington port glasses off a biscuit tin from the height of about three feet the other night without breaking it.
Re: Can you recommend a port glass?
Ditto. But someone else that I know is very good at breaking thingsGlenn E. wrote:Clearly I am insufficiently manly, as I have only been able to break 1 Riedel Vinum glass in all my years of drinking Port.
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
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Re: Can you recommend a port glass?
Please post a link.djewesbury wrote:IKEA make cheap white wine glasses that are an extremely good size and shape for port.
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djewesbury
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Re: Can you recommend a port glass?
Will look later to see if I still have a product number / packaging, or failing that browse the site to find the glass itself.jdaw1 wrote:Please post a link.djewesbury wrote:IKEA make cheap white wine glasses that are an extremely good size and shape for port.
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Re: Can you recommend a port glass?
Checked. Seems they've been discontinued and replaced with horrible Princess-type glasses. I'll have to be more careful then.djewesbury wrote:Will look later to see if I still have a product number / packaging, or failing that browse the site to find the glass itself.jdaw1 wrote:Please post a link.djewesbury wrote:IKEA make cheap white wine glasses that are an extremely good size and shape for port.
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Re: Can you recommend a port glass?
Was it something like this one?djewesbury wrote:Checked. Seems they've been discontinued and replaced with horrible Princess-type glasses. I'll have to be more careful then.djewesbury wrote:Will look later to see if I still have a product number / packaging, or failing that browse the site to find the glass itself.jdaw1 wrote:Please post a link.djewesbury wrote:IKEA make cheap white wine glasses that are an extremely good size and shape for port.