Wine Glasses?

CaptainBob

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Having now got through about 5 wine glasses in as many months by them smashing on the cabin floor - and then having to do the very thorough cleanup - and then still finding shards... it's time to bite the bullet and admit that wine glasses on a boat are just not practical.

But it's _so_ much nicer drinking wine out of a wine glass (why is that!?!?).

I saw on TV the other day that Theo Pathitis (sp?) from Dragon's Den has sterling silver wine flutes in his £350k car and it got me thinking.

But I don't think the buget is going to stretch to sterling silver flutes.

Any suggestions?

TY!
 
I don't think it's that wine tastes so much better out of wine glasses as that it tastes so much better out of glass. We now use small plain glass 'beakers' that are much stronger and more stable that wine flutes. Look at any lunchtime family gathering on the continent and you will often find that this is the everyday vessel for wine drinking.
 
We've got some hard plastic wine glasses, I think from Ikea that are unbreakable (so far). Wine tastes OK to me in them.
 
Over here we have some "unbreakable" tempered glass wine-glasses available- they look restaurant-quality- not super-posh, but not placcy rubbish by any means.
They're made by Arcoroc, I think, or at least one of those specialist French glassware people, and FWIW, I saw one being dropped from shoulder-height onto a concrete boatyard floor. It bounced! And it made a lovely resonant clang, but was otherwise unhurt. Another one wasn't so luck- the base of the stem cracked off without a splinter, so there was zero cleanup. It was dropped onto the edge of the base, so the forces were probably more than the stem was equal to, considering the stem was maybe 5mm thick!
 
I agree that wine tastes better out of glass. Wine masters might argue that the stem wine glass is best because it stops the heat of the hand warming the wine and greasy finger marks obscuring appreciation of the colour- but on my boat it never hangs around long enough for that to matter, and I'm not sure that the higher-alcohol full bodied wines we tend to drink nowadays are that delicate. It is, IMHO, important to have a glass that allows the wine to breath a bit- so any wide-topped glass will do. I agree that the tumblers made by Arcoroc or similar, available in French supermarkets, are the way to go. We've had them for years and they do bounce.
 
Keep the glasses and buy a catamaran. Have had the same set of wine glasses for 7 years and not broken one yet....
 
boatmike said:
Keep the glasses and buy a catamaran. Have had the same set of wine glasses for 7 years and not broken one yet....
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Thats the whole lot breaking next time you go out !!

Personally I use small glass tumblers for wine. The also double up for spirits when the wine is finished. This is at anchor / moored (normally) and not whilst sailing.
 
LOL

Yeah, should have said this is not for while sailing. We're quite cramped in here with two people and dog and permanent table in the cabin - so things simply get knocked off the table even when in the marina.
 
We have plastic set and a cut glass set. Depending one where we are how drunk we plan on getting...!

From memory the plastic ones were a few quid from Morrisons or such like and the cut glass were from an outlet shop!

I ahve seen the metal ones, but if they are like the SS coffee mugs my filings don't get on with them!
 
We have recently switched to glass for our occasional imbibement of wine. Picture below; so proper glass, a thicker glass than a normal wine glass, large base and a thick stem. It's important that a wine glass look good, feels nice to the touch and can hold a sufficient quantity; and this ticks the boxes.

SWMBO just happens to sell them! They're excellent quality (so not cheap); selling at £40 for 4; can't get enough of them! PM me if interested!

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I have a few tumblers made of acrylic I think, by a New Zealand firm who's name escapes me. maybe someone else has less decayed grey matter than me... Towsure used to sell them but can't see anything on their site at the mo. There is a range of various shapes and sizes.

anyway, if you go down the plastic route, they are the best i've found.
 
Unbreakable almost

I have 5 wine glasses on my boat and they get a lot of use, I have had them for 10 + years, there used to be 6 but one got trod on. I bought them from a chandlers at Burnham on Crouch Essex, the owner insisted upon demostrating their toughness by throwing one at the floor - it bounced. They are no good for beer(too small) but Whisky Brandy Port and wine all taste ok and the measures are better (bigger) than pub.
They are squat have two wavey lines and a boat motif.
Cheers
Peter
 
We keep a supply of those glasses that cornichons (baby gerkins) come in in France. Good sturdy wineglass shape but without the stems, their low CofG is useful onboard. You can also buy them in slightly larger tumblers but the glass on these is not strong enough for sea use.
 
CaptainBob said:
Having now got through about 5 wine glasses in as many months by them smashing on the cabin floor - and then having to do the very thorough cleanup - and then still finding shards... it's time to bite the bullet and admit that wine glasses on a boat are just not practical.

But it's _so_ much nicer drinking wine out of a wine glass (why is that!?!?).

I saw on TV the other day that Theo Pathitis (sp?) from Dragon's Den has sterling silver wine flutes in his £350k car and it got me thinking.

But I don't think the buget is going to stretch to sterling silver flutes.

Any suggestions?

TY!
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our ( real glass ) ones are 25 yrs old only broke one to date in all that time aboard:). we have left the mooring once or twice :rolleyes:
 
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