This series of decanters takes its inspiration from birds for a collection that’s as striking as it is functional. (from glassware-makers Riedel)
i saw this come up on my dashboard a few days ago. now i must make a stand.
riedel sucks shit for stemware and wine-related accoutements, for fuck’s sake they make a stemless WHITE WINE glass…great, warm yr glass of white with your body heat, why the hell do you assholes think that stems were added in the first place? for fuck’s sake, their shit-but-neat-o offerings are the result of letting “design people” play fast and loose with aesthetics over the functional purpose towards the concerns of wine carriages. what they have done here is allowed their decanters to wholly cease attention to the wine and the oxidation thereof as per one’s palette and thereby reassigned wine to some shit-soaked spectacle that imbues the pourer with majesty above the grove. so suck my dick, riedel. there’s a reason i have only ever purchased spiegelau and ravenscroft stem/glassware: it’s because their offerings put the damn wines that will fill them first. and when i say purchased, i mean that i have spent several hundred dollars on the decanters and stemware i own today.
but go ahead and buy riedel’s shit if all you drink is turning leaf or yellowtail or concha y toro, i’ll be over here letting my leathery cab franc breathe the fuck out in my excalibur while my tulip glass shoves the bouquet of some hyper-dry vouvray right up my shnoz as i sip on it and dunk toast squares into some milked-out and unpasteurized camembert a friend of mine smuggled in from france.
not to mention that anyone who takes wine even halfway seriously should own one of these and at least six of these and probably about ten to twelve of these, and like tons of the aforementioned tulip glasses. these shits are lead free and brittle as hell and you will break them left and right, just so you know.
now go drink good wine properly, and if you question the validity of any claim i have made, name a liquor or mix and there is a glass that has been developed to compliment it: brandy and cognac and pilsners and ales and every manner of cocktail be it scotch or bourbon or gimlet or highball and port wine and sherry and martini or daquiri or margarita…you get the picture and only the french make wine that is good enough to be enjoyed out of juice glasses, the italians and the portuguese try but they suck at it (see all spanaird/latin-country wines while we’re talkin’ about it).
