Stemless Wine Glasses

Filed in archive Wine Accessories on September 13, 2006

Have you seen these new stemless wine glasses? Kind of weird looking at first, but then again, they do make a lot of sense.

I know in my house we have issues with breaking wine glasses all the time. Of course, if I pay a dollar for the glass at the dollar store, we will have it until the dawn of time. However, many of our friends and family know we are wine lovers, so we often receive pretty wine glasses as gifts, which of course, we break about the day after we get them.

The dish washer is another danger to wine glasses. I guess due to his days working in various kitchens while he worked is way through school, my husband has this thing about washing dishes by hand, even though we have a perfectly good dish washer. As an ex-waitress, I have no problem stuffing as many dishes as humanly possible into this sucker, and that includes my dollar store wine glasses. But, yes, as I said, this is dangerous because of that darn stem.


Maybe this year, someone will see some stemless glasses, like these pictured from Crate and Barrel and we may actually manage not to break them.