Riedel Sommeliers Black Series Riesling Grand Cru Glass, Red/Black

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Welcome To Riedel

‘The best glasses for each technical and hedonistic functions are these made by Riedel. The impact of those glasses on high quality wine is profound. I can’t emphasize sufficient what a distinction they make.’ (Quote: Robert M. Parker, Jr. The Wine Advocate)

‘The Riedel household has by no means stamped its title on a single bottle of wine. However over the previous 50 years, this Austrian clan of grasp glassmakers has completed extra to boost the oenophile’s pleasure than nearly any winemaking dynasty’. (Quote: Time Journal)

Claus Riedel was the primary particular person within the lengthy historical past of the glass to design its form based on the character of the wine. He’s thus the inventor of the purposeful wine glass. Make a journey via our world of glasses and senses.

Riedel’s Sommeliers Assortment

The Riedel Mark Of High quality – Working with the Italian Sommelier affiliation A.I.S. (Associazione Italiana Sommeliers) Claus Riedel unveiled the world’s first gourmand glass collection in Orvieto in 1973. The collection comprised 10 sizes. The world of wine has modified radically since then. In the present day, there are areas and continents producing wine which didn’t exist or had been unknown on the time. Sommeliers has developed right into a complete, state-of-the-art ‘Vitrum-Vinothek’. Because of world demand, Sommeliers now represents the benchmark amongst wine glasses and is probably the most profitable hand-made glass collection on the planet. Each glass is a person piece, with the higher half blown into form and the stem and base formed by hand utilizing strategies that had been developed across the time of Christ’s beginning. Our glass makers contribute the expertise, talent and care required to present the Sommeliers collection the hand-crafted end that our prospects anticipate.

From a easy wine glass to a glass which is a pleasure to drink from: each Riedel assortment arises out of sensory workshops designed to have interaction all of the senses. No different title is as carefully related to European glass artwork and glass know-how as that of Riedel. That’s the reason each glass bears the Riedel lettering as a singular distinguishing characteristic.

The Black Sequence has been upgraded by including a high quality purple glass string jacketed in clear crystal
Manufactured by hand in Kufstein, Austria the place decanters and Sommeliers have been specifically made by hand
Commemorating the 40 yr anniversary of Sommeliers
Model new Riedel merchandise for 2013
Made by Riedel the Wine Glass Firm Grape Varietal Particular