Riedel Ouverture White Wine Glasses, Set of 4 | 
| Brand: Riedel
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $48.00
Buy New: $39.95
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Seller: CentralChef
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 28581
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 3 x 3 x 3
Model: 408 /5
UPC: 632868408058
EAN: 0632868408058
ASIN: B000069CF1
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| Features:
| • | 4 glasses shaped for serving white wines | | • | Machine-blown of lead-free potash glass | | • | Cut-and-polished rims so wine flows easily onto tongue | | • | Each holds 9-7/8 ounces, stands 7-1/8 inches high | | • | Made by world renowned wineglass makers |
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Product Description
Introduced in 1989, Riedel's Ouverture collection is an uncomplicated beginner series for customers who appreciate good, reasonably priced wine. You needn't have an encyclopedic knowledge of varietals or wine-growing regions to appreciate this fine stemware.
Amazon.com Review
Perfect for everyday use, the four white-wine glasses in this set are part of the moderately priced Ouverture series offered by world-renowned Austrian wineglass maker Riedel Crystal (founded in 1756). Being lead-free, they're not crystal like Riedel's premium glasses but are machine blown of potash glass and are dishwasher-safe. Their thin rims are cut and polished to Riedel's exacting standards, so wine flows easily onto the tongue. Each glass holds 9-7/8 ounces and stands 7-1/8 inches high. Though glasses shaped and sized for different types of wine seem commonplace today, when Riedel introduced this idea in 1961, it was revolutionary. Since then Riedel has continued fine-tuning glasses to bring out the best characteristics in wines and spirits. Varying bowls' shapes and sizes affects the position of the head when sipping and where wine first contacts the tongue's various taste zones. --Fred Brack
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 These are too shrinky-dinky to count as real wine glasses April 3, 2009
Brent Krupp (Mercer Island, WA)
Read the dimensions carefully on this one because the picture makes them look like real wine glasses. They're not! They're tiny little taster glasses that can't hold a proper 5 ounce pour without being too full to benefit from the fancy shape (too little head space for proper bouquet or slosh-free swirling).
If you just want cute little wine glasses you can get them much cheaper and they'll work just as poorly. If you want proper wine glasses to do all that sniffing and swirling you need ones that are much bigger.
Yeah, this is the same review I put for the red ones, I bought both at the same time without looking carefully at the dimensions because they looked normal (shape-wise yes, size-wise no).
Riedel is top quality March 16, 2009
D. Roundtree (Charlotte, NC)
I love Riedel glasses. I have several sets and clear quality in every glass. While the brand is usually pricey, you can see and feel the difference in these glasses. They are not for everyday use but very impressive for frequent wine enthusiasts.
 The best wine glasses for the money! December 22, 2008
DebD (NY)
These are the best! They are incredibly well priced considering they have such thin, cut rims. They are a pleasure to drink out of. They are not ostentatiously tall or large like many other glasses on the market, so they are very easy to handle at the table, even after you've had a few glasses of wine. They have a nice, general shape which works well with a lot of different types of wine. I have both the white wine and red wine glasses and love them both. If you are not a wine snob but want well made glassware, these are for you.
My favorite wine tasting glasses May 12, 2007
David Mckibbin (Towson, MD USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love the Riedel Ouverture series glasses and have the red wine, white wine and magnum sets. Only $8 per stem and the same shape as the much more expensive Vinum series. Supposedly, the no lead allows them to be put in the dishwasher, but I always hand wash them. Good light but strong wine glass with a nice length stem; many wine glasses have overly long stems. Don't know why more wine stores don't carry the Ouverture glasses. For me, they are the only ones to own.
For the smaller hand and more compact nose. . . December 16, 2006
Lynn Hoffman, author:The Short Course in Beer (Philadelphia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Ouverture White glass holds 20% less wine than the red. It' a reminder to pour smaller portions of white so the wine doesn't warm up too quickly in the glass. I personally find the smaller size to be a bit too fussy, but one of my favorite tasting companions prefers this glass no matter what we're drinking. A great deal of your experience of wine comes from the aromas that develop in the air above the surface of the wine. A glass that forces the wine to have a large surface area for its volume and then narrows to concentrate the vapors will increase the flavor experience. Glasses with a thin lip seem to interfere less with the taste of wine than thicker (and cheaper) glasses. The shape of the glass makes a difference, too. Since we can only smell molecules that are in the air, the best wine-tasting glass is going to promote evaporation by exposing the largest possible surface area to the air. These glasses are wide at the waist and narrow at the top to get more from their wine. Does it make a difference? You bet-and in every taste test that I've been part of, Riedel glasses win hands down.
(For more information on the factors that effect the taste of wine-Storage, Air, Temperature, Food and Context, see New Short Course in Wine,The)
The wine simple tastes better in these glasses. The red wine Ouverture glasses are as close to an all-purpose glass as any and they're very inexpensive.
It shouldn't be necessary to mention that a wine glass should be clean and odorless. But sometimes restaurants, in their zeal to make their glassware clean use rinsing aids that leave behind a strong mineral smell. If you're spending a lot of money on a bottle of wine in a restaurant, sniff the empty glass first. At home, a film of grease can settle on a previously clean glass. It's no reflection on the quality of the housekeeping-cooking fats disperse in the air and settle on everything in a kitchen. An additional rinsing and a wipe with a clean towel are all you need.
Lynn Hoffman, author of New Short Course in Wine,The and the tasty bang BANG: A Novel
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