Has anyone encountered the new ultra-thin wine glasses?

Just curious. Sounds like eggshell glass.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/wine-glasses-slim-way-down-1441114488

 

A good example of *first world problems*?

 

Agreed, Messi!

Clueless poor Mexicans would put cheese and chorizo on those and eat 'em like nachos.

 

It's probably because my computer is haunted - but

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WSJ has managed to sell me a few things I didn't really need. I finally told them to stop spamming my computer. So they shut me down. completely.

That's OK, I'll survive.

BUT, I do remember my new bride of a few weeks, letting me know that she had thrown out 5 wine glasses "BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T MATCH"


They had only been in my family for a few hundred years and weighed about .0000002 ounces each.

Yeah, I kept her for another 25 years.

 

I have found that when drinking box wine, thicker glasses are better. Not nearly as much wine gets wasted if the glasses don't break as you stagger around. I can see how in the proper situation with the right wine how thin glasses might enhance your drinking experience. Unfortunately, I find myself in those situations far too seldom these days.

 

Besides... would anyone even notice if you busted one of these new ones over their head.

 

You're both right.

I'll use the excuse that

1. My ex threw the super light ones away.

2.WSJ won't let me into their site to get new ones.

SO I have to stick to the dollar store wine glasses.

 

There is much wisdom on this forum.
As the immortal Carmen Miranda once said (according to my Uncle Refugio)...

"When I'm drinking at a party, I like a glass. When I'm drinking at home, I prefer the bottle."

 

"When I'm drinking at a party, I like a glass. When I'm drinking at home, I prefer the bottle."[/QUOTE]

It just isn't the same when you're drinking directly from the box.
Don

 

Good point, good point. I suppose a box would require... a straw? A funnel?

 

When drinking Carboardeaux directly from the box I recommend a device like that below.

 

Oh, I'm a bottle-girl !
At least until tequila comes in a... uh... b-b-b... Bordeaux.

 

The idea of “very thin glass” wine glasses brings back a funny, but not-so-terribly-pleasant memory of something that happened to me in the late 1970’s…

I had made a new “friend” thru the local Junior League. (I should have known better, based on that statement, alone.) I’ll call my new friend Deborah (since that was her name!)

Deborah wanted to have a dinner party, but she didn’t know how to cook. We had a number of mutual friends, all of whom she planned to invite to her party. Since I love to cook, have been cooking since I was a little kid, and have never met a recipe I couldn’t master, I volunteered to help.

Well, “help” translated into “do it all”. In truth, as far as the cooking was concerned, that really didn’t bother me. The poor girl was so inept that I put her to work at the stove, stirring a custard filling for the profiteroles. I turned the stove down very, very low, and I left her there, stirring the custard, for some 45 minutes, which kept her out of my hair.

Anyway, after a VERY successful dinner, I stuck around to help clean up. (Heaven knows why!) As I was hand-washing a very delicate wine glass, the darned thing broke into pieces in my hand, and I started bleeding into the sink…

Forget the fact that I was injured. “I can’t believe you broke one of my special glasses! You’re going to have to replace it!” exclaimed dear Deborah. Oh, crud. Not only was I doing her clean-up (as well as her cooking!) but now I had to replace her stupid wine glass, too? I was seeing RED – and dollar signs, as well.

Just coincidentally, the very next day, one of my sisters stopped by on her way from FL north to NYC. For whatever reason, my sister really, really, really wanted to go to Pier One Imports. I had never been to the local Pier One, but that day, we went.

Well, guess what I saw at Pier One? Yes, it was an entire display of dear Deborah’s super-special, super-thin glass wine glasses – for $2.99 each!

Against my better judgment, I spent $2.99 (plus tax) and I bought Deborah a replacement: a brand new, oh-so-special, super thin, glass wine glass. I dropped it off at the front desk at her apartment building, with a lovely note, thanking her for “inviting” me to her delightful dinner party.

Shortly thereafter, I also quit the Junior League, and I never saw dear Deborah again...

-C-

 

Ohhhhh, C............
I feel your pain.............
If were local, I would volunteer to go scratch her eyes out... but I know you're too good to want that.
But if you ever did...
Just sayin'!

 

I was given a set of Lalique stemware with super thin cups and a cluster of grapes for the stems as a wedding gift in 1986 and every time I used them a least one glass broke. I gave up when I down to 5 stems and sold the rest via consignment in the late 1980s. Given my experience I don't think ultra thin is going last.