How do you transport your stemware?

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Holds 3 GG Gold, or two Burg stems

https://shop.thewinecheck.com/Elite-Stemware-Case-EliteStemware.htm

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“This premium case has a number of high end features and finish work, so you can feel as proud to show your friends and colleagues your stemware case as you are highlighting the stemware inside it.”

It’s hard to understate the impression you can make with a snazzy stemware case! [wink.gif]

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Everything pretty much stops when you open your stemware case and display the goods therein. It’s remarkable, really.

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I would think so. The dividers are padded soft and flexible, plus they can be reconfigured and all - the Velcro to the interior sides. You can configure the interior to make just about any combination of things work.

I’m telling y’all, you’re usually wise to ignore my posts, but not in this instance. That bag is the best use of $42 you’ll find in the wine world.

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^ Thanks Chris! Ok you are officially on the hook. Ordered one yesterday.

Maybe we can geek out on it at offline soon. :slight_smile:

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I have the Wine Check case and think it would be great if I ever find a reason to use it. Typically we just take GoVino glasses, using one in Portugal right now in fact.

Restaraunts were we are going to drink wine that we care about usually have decent enough stemware.

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Love this. Hold 3 larger glasses.

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I concluded a couple of years ago that, since I have a Wine Check case and several Gabriel Glas Gold stems, I should make the most of both and now bring my own glasses to most tastings. The case works well.

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Picked up one also for the next South OC offsite!

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The box it came in works well.

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Picked up a couple at Berserker Day pricing a while back. Awesome GGG carrier for offlines or dinners out and never fails to impress. ;-}

Cheers,

Steve

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I use Zalto Bordeaux stems for all of my professional tastings so when I get on an airplane, they go in their original boxes and are my carry on item. I just returned from 17 days of tasting meetings in Paso and Los Alamos and six (in their boxes) fit nicely into a former 12 pack box for the car ride. BTW, winemakers love it when they walk in and find nice stems on the table waiting for them.

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I’ve switched to stemless for travel. Much less cumbersome and nearly as enjoyable IMO. I found a 4 pack of Riedel O’s pinot glasses that come in a hard tube with stryo dividers inside. I walk into restaurants like I’m carrying blueprints and start pulling out glasses. It also travels well for weekends away. My wife also got me a couple of the Riedel To Go white wine glasses which slide right into my wine tote and are perfect for hotel stays for my daughters’ basketball tournaments. I would have preferred the bigger red glasses, but I’m pretty sure they were the only ones at Marshall’s or TJ Maxx for a fraction of full price. Incredibly convenient and way better than anything I could find at some of these random hotels we get stuck in.

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Bought one of these a while back per Chris’s recommendation and use it for offlines. Holds 4 glasses + 2 bottles, plus openers, plates, plastic silverware, etc… Love it… Just the right size for a geek. For the bigger blind tastings where I need 12+ glasses I use some smaller stems and the original cardboard boxes to carry them in.

I also have one of todd’s wine check cases which came with my wine check on Berserker day. Use that one to carry some Ridge glasses that go with the other 12. Despite having 15 total glasses dedicated to tastings, I’ve been to too two tasting recently where 15 was not enough. Luckily some wise pro’s loaned me two stems…

Sean

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Yes, this is what I’ve used for about 12-14 years now. (I’m on my third one.) It’s perfect because, as stated above, it’s plenty roomy. It will hold taller (Riesling, etc.) bottles, magnums, Champagne bottles (with enough extra room to slap a bottle chiller around it before heading out), and you can often even squeeze a “7th bottle” into the bag if needed. There’s also enough room and padding between the dividers that your glasses don’t get “squeezed” (i.e. potentially broken) during transport. The front pocket provides plenty of room for accessories (foil cutter, 2-3 wine openers, an extra cork or three, etc.). The strap/handle design has changed over the years a bit, but otherwise the design has remained pretty consistent.

Another nice thing–because of the shape/design, it’s not at all obvious that it’s a wine bag. This makes it very easy to take in to movie theatres, or anywhere else you’re really not supposed to bring your own wine but where they don’t pay anyone enough money to ask what’s in your bag…

The only bad thing is that people make fun of me because I have it with me no matter where I go. Everyone calls it my “wine purse.”

I agree with the above that this bag is a huge value…

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Ha, you too. My wife is forever mocking my wine purse. Though she does it to refer to my 3 bottle basic wine carrier one that is more often what I take to restaurants for dinner.

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I stopped doing this long long long time ago. Gave up being that anal :wink: But in the past I used the riedel bags or orig box.

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I dont know man, I dont think I’ll ever stop bringing my own stems with me when needed. The enjoyment I get from drinking out of my Gabriel Glass Golds (or proper wine glasses in general) by far outweighs the hassle of traveling with them and most definitely the perceived notion of me being ‘anal’.

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I recently did a tasting in New York. It’s impossible to find affordable glasses for rent at the right price, so I modified a double walled cardboard shipping box with cardboard dividers. I put 2 layers of 9 Schott Zwiesel Triton Burgundy glasses in the case and checked it on Southwest to and from New York with no breakage. It’s a little dirty, but it worked great. I think it only works because those glasses are indestructible and there was a fragile sticker on the box. I don’t think I would try it with Riedel.

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Just bought this - very nice bag. The weirdest thing. The inside wall of the bag only has 5 Velcro strips instead of 6 so nowhere to attach the last divider. Looks like manufacturing defect to me but thought to ask. Anybody has it and can check please?
Thanks

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