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Gamliel K wrote:On a slightly funny note, I have friends here in DC who will occasionally invite me over for dinner, and whenever they do I find my place set with a stemless wine tumbler and a stemmed water chalice. They are always amused (and perhaps slightly horrified) when I use the tumbler for water and the chalice for wine.
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Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:05 pm
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Gamliel K wrote:Personally, I believe the stemless wine glass to be a true abomination. Not only are they impracticable, because they force one to smudge and warm the bowl, but I also find them rather aesthetically unpleasing. As Professor Brillant Savarin might have put it, a wine glass missing its stem is like a beautiful woman missing an eye.
On a slightly funny note, I have friends here in DC who will occasionally invite me over for dinner, and whenever they do I find my place set with a stemless wine tumbler and a stemmed water chalice. They are always amused (and perhaps slightly horrified) when I use the tumbler for water and the chalice for wine.
Gamliel
Daniel Rogov wrote:In a completely different context, I spoke today with a detective who told me that the police love those glasses because it's impossible to get whole or court-regognized fingerprints from stems". The moral of the story - if you're wanted or suspected, stay with stems!
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Loweeel wrote:Gamliel, I didn't know you were local! We may have to get together at some point.
But here's the question (and maybe a topic for next week's poll) -- which is more important for a wineglass, the stem or the bowl? Like I said, I would much rather deal with smudges and marginally warmer wine, as long as I can get varietal characteristics from the bowl and a nice thin cut rim. A stem is all well and good, but if it's one of those freebie glasses with a fat rolled rim, a completely open punchbowl bowl, and stuff printed on the bowl---or even worse, one of those opaque/fun/design-heavy stemmed glasses---I'll go stemless every time.
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