In summary…one could basically conclude that ”anything goes”? Meaning, there seems to be little consensus favouring, with a large majority, one specific type of glass.
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Lehmann Jamesse Prestige Grand Champagne
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Big fan of the Josephine champagne flute, but if it’s a rich big Champagne, I prefer to use the Josephine universal glass.
This one for me
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And a worse job than anything else of allowing one to smell any nuance in the wine.
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I disagree. The wine is an inch from your nose regardless of the size of the glass, you can smell it just fine. And even if that complaint were true, I don’t really need to smell “nuances” in flat Champagne. I would put a higher priority on keeping the bubbles alive that they worked so hard to put into the wine in the first place.
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you just ensured this thread will go to 1000 posts. well done.
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Thanks. Stay tuned for the encore, “Can Champagne be ‘natural’?”
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i’ve recently decided that all wine is “natural” thereby obviating the entire debate, forever. it’s easy if you try.
Timely offer here.
There are more modest sales on the mineralite too
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That’s not a bad price… 
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Even a bit cheaper for “open stock” (no idea what the difference is, and I already ordered mine when I noticed). $22.50@
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So I’m just going to assume you don’t decant your Champagne?
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The finish on the Zalto is smoother too, but you can only tell up close at the right angle. If you set the glasses side by side they look identical from 2 feet away. I did dinner with a friend a few weeks back and he had 2 Spiegelau Bordeaux and 2 Zalto Bordeaux on the table and you would have never known the table was set with two different brands of glassware. That’s how similar they are.
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No swizzle stick either.
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I moved to the spiegelau definition white glass in our tasting room for the traditional method sparkling wines and we’ve been VERY happy. While I quite like the slightly larger bowl of the universal and how it accentuates bouquet, I have found that the slightly smaller diameter and subsequent surface/volume ratio seems to retain the energy on the palate and for longer (not that bubbles last very long once I get it in the glass, haha…)
On this one day of the year (Seiber Monday!) when the Zaltos are actually substantially cheaper than Spiegelau, which would you buy?
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I like any fantastic white glass. Grassl Liberte or Mineralite. Zalto Universal. Gabriel Glass GG (gold hand blown). I would much rather drink champagne from these glasses.
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He’s clearly drinking supermarket swill to need to capture all those bubbles to manufacture some interest in the wine…
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Someone has cheap Zaltos? Could use a few more…