In almost 300 hundred years long of history of making glasses and decanters made of crystal and glass, almost 11 generations of family business, company ‘’Riedel’’ has contributed that wine glass becomes much more than just a glass.
With Claus J. Riedel, in the mid of 20th century, begins the new era in making glasses for alcoholic drinks. With cooperation with science, and by working together with eminent enologists, he comes to conclusion of the importance of glass shapes for the perception of the drink, and that noise, taste, balance and final aroma all depends of the shape of the glass that you are drinking from. Sorts of grapes represent the key factor in creating the ratio between the fruit, its acidity, tannin and alcohol, and the size and the shape of the glass has complex roll in recognition and spreading the message of the quality of wine.
Same wine shows totally different characteristics when it is served in different glasses, and difference are extremely high, that experienced experts can think that they tasted a completely different kind of wine.
Drinking wine from ‘’Riedel’’ glasses shows bigger depth and better balance, all fullness and overall substance of each variety of wine, more than any other similar glasses.
‘’Riedel’’ has created the standards when it comes to making glasses that are at the same time functional and beautiful, formed by the principles of Bauhaus design, that the form should follow the function, and extremely thin crystal glass in hand or machine making, is completely reduced solely to the body of glasses, cups and base rate.
These glasses are the best friend of wines, nicely balanced with all sorts of grapes and which creates each sip into the ultimate hedonistic experience.
