My wife told me I may not drink wine on our new carpet unless I had a sippy cup.
Your wife or your keeper? 
Zalto Sippy Cup. You know it’s coming . . . Sippy cup for mango juice . . . apple juice . . . orange juice . . . cranberry juice . . .
Happy Wife = Happy Life
Step away slowly, then run like hell! Do not drink fine red wine out of that cup - not under any circumstances!
The irony is that when I’ve been to wineries in California I’m often tasting out of inferior glassware. I should be That Guy who brings his own stems.
And Merrill - Black Cat is delicious out of any glass. 
Or plastic.
Well, thank you!
I saw a photo of a Ceritas tasting where they poured into Zalto Universals. I have to love that. I use them as my every day glass, but with the number of stems I use here, I am not likely to replace all my Riedel/Spiegelaus any time soon. Maybe. Probably. Right now I am bringing out one Zalto stem at the end of a multi-vintage tasting, and experiencing one vintage side by side, Riedel and Zalto. Hey, I get bored easily.
SIpping on a 2005 EMH now and it is fantastic. Using a zalto bordeaux glass. I need to order some universals.
Thank you!
You inspired me…I put away that boring XXX Pinot and pulled a 2005 Black Cat, myself. It is too cool from the cellar, but I removed the cork, removed that pesky stuff being deposited in every 2005 EMH Black Cat bottle neck, and decanted. Poured a small glass into one Zalto Universal, and one into a Riedel. I put them to warm before the fire burning in the living room (do not attempt to do this at home ![[wow.gif]](/uploads/db3686/original/2X/7/7d450e9830889c8943b674446a21b7254cad657e.gif "wow"){kind=small}
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Please, let this madness stop!
Oh say it ain’t so! The Zalto Universal is expressing my 2005 better than the Riedel. This could get expensive.
I am going to follow these for a bit.
I was surprised by the sediment in the neck, especially when I didn’t see any when I decanted the rest of it. It has been open now since about 5pm, it is now 9. Very, very nice. Still has years to go I think.
Do you have anymore left for sale?
Has anyone done a head to head with a Zalto universal and Spiegelau universal? They look very similar in pictures but the Spiegelau are a lot less expensive.
And sorry for the thread drift Noah.
Oui. They are at $100 now, based on supply and demand. Still in the warehouse where they moved after bottling in 2007.
Zalto is blowing the doors off the Riedel. As a producer, however, I wonder if it is “fair” to present wines in the Zalto - that is the best they will ever show, and few buyers will have them. I am thinking about this…
As a consumer, I am all in with the Zalto.
In at least one buyer’s opinion, anything anyone can do to let me taste wine at its best is appreciated. Granted I’m likely biased by regularly drinking from Zalto.
A Zalto from most retailers is no more than a bottle of Black Cat. No, it’s not an inexpensive glass. But given that the price of one glass that will make me enjoy numerous wines at their best is less than any of those bottles, it’s a no brainer. More than fair IMO.
Thank you for your comments , truly. My dilemma is that I do not want people to taste with me, experience a wine, purchase it, open it at home, only to find it does not taste like it did when it was shown.
That is a little over my usual budget. But it was great while it lasted.
I find that a lot of times. The experience of being at a tasting can make the wine more enjoyable. There have been times that we have opened the wines a few months later and thought “what the heck were we thinking”. And there have been times when we opened them and thought “we should have a whole case”. The glass can make a difference but that is a risk everyone takes.
Continuing the thread drift:
Merrill: how often do winos show up with their own stem for tasting?
To all: for those who are balls-out enough to carry your stems with you, in what do you carry them safely?
Never. Not once. I would be offended.