Product Description

Riedel Vinum Wine Glasses make every drop of wine taste its best. Riedel revolutionized glassware by customizing the shape of wine glasses to a particular type of wine. Each wine glass is fine-tuned to direct the flow of the wine onto parts of the palate that will best express the flavors and aromas of a specific wine varietal. The fine crystal offers superb clarity so you can experience the wine's color and texture. Moreover, all machine made Vinum stems are completely dishwasher safe. Made of over 24% leaded crystal. Riedel Vinum Brandy Snifter is the perfect glass for swirling, sniffing and enjoying fine brandy. The shape of the brandy glass concentrates the nuances of the bouquet, while the round wide bowl allows you to cup the wine and bring it to the right temperature. The exquisite crystal brings clarity to the rich hues of the brandy. Size: 6"H, 29-5/8 oz. Riedel Model # 6416/18

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #94218 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Riedel
• Dimensions: 6.00" h x 4.75" w x 6.00" l, 1.00 pounds

Features

• Four glasses made for brandy or cognac
• Balloon-style bowl shaped for holding and wafting aroma to nose
• Machine-made, 24-percent lead crystal
• Made in Bavaria by world's premier wine glass maker
• 6 inches tall; capacity of 29-5/8 ounces

Amazon.com Review
Austria's Riedel is the world's premier manufacturer of wine glasses and, with this set of four brandy snifters, the company makes a foray into designing glasses for other beverages. Like the wine glasses in Riedel's Vinum series, these snifters are made of 24-percent lead crystal. The bulbous balloon-style bowl on each glass is specifically shaped for drinkers to cup the bottom and warm the brandy or cognac with one hand. Coupled with the narrower rim on the glass, the bowl is also designed to waft the liquor's aroma to the nose with each sip. Each glass stands 6 inches high and holds a copious 29-5/8 ounces of brandy or cognac; however, it is customary to pour just a few ounces at a time for sipping. --Cristina Vaamonde

Customer Reviews

Snap 'em up before they're gone
Riedel has discontinued these snifters. For Cognac (and I suppose that goes for Armagnac and other brandies), Riedel's now suggesting the "Hennesy Cognac" glasses, code 416/71, which look like their port glasses with flared rims. If you love snifters and don't care if the trendy oenophiles turn up their noses, go ahead and get a case of these. Personally, I like nothing better than to roll cognac around in a snifter after dinner. Like the other Vinum glasses, the brandy snifters are grandly scaled, wonderfully balanced and gorgeously proportioned. None of the nose-stuck-in-the-bowl problem that you get with some snifters.

Cognac Snifter
I purchased these glasses for a special occasion. They are a great glass for celebrating. Like other Reidel glasses, they are light and enjoyable to drink out of. We also have the 416/71 and for cognac I'll take this glass.

Riedel makes a better glass
Try this: grab a snifter and a small tulip-shaped wine glass. Measure identical amounts of cognac and pour into each glass. Wait a minute or two and then sniff the bouquets. Does it seem more pronounced from any particular one?
If one of the glasses seems to nurture a more profound bouquet, wait a few minutes and repeat the experiment. This time, sniff the most productive glass after you have tried all the other. If it still promotes the bouquet more than the others, you can be sure that the shape is the difference. This experiment is one of several inNew Short Course in Wine,The
Now take a taste from each of the glasses. Was there a clear-cut winner? If there was, why wouldn't you use that glass for all the cold beverages that you drink? If you're a relentlessly scientific type, you might try this experiment with both a cheap wine and a more expensive one. You could continue on, sampling reds and whites, sweet wines and dry.

The results of my experiments with glasses suggest that brandy snifters are a waste of time and good brandy.
Reach instead for the smaller, tulip shaped spirits glass.

Lynn Hoffman, author of New Short Course in Wine,The
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