Has anyone tried these interestingly shaped red wine glasses?
I saw them advertised last year, but didn’t pay much attention, but then Shae Kinsman posted them on the Kinsman Eades IG account and I find myself looking into them again.
Curious if anyone here has had the same experience as Shae. I really don’t need more red wine glasses, but this may be an itch I’ll end up scratching.
Lots and lots of glass threads. Try the new and improved search function.
Tom, perhaps you should try it yourself and you’ll find there is exactly 1 thread on this particular glass with someone leaving a one sentence review.
They make me think of someone just learning how to blow glass, holding it up and exclaiming “well, at least it kind of looks like a glass” 
@Robert_Dentice is a big fan of the No 2 and takes it everywhere to drink Riesling from. Similarly @Brian_S_t_o_t_t_e_r did a side by side with a No 2 and a Zalto universal a while back and posted it on his IG.
I tried a few of the Josephine stems in a restaurant setting. I quite enjoyed the aromatics I got from them. Though I think they are probably on the fragile. It was the first time I managed to break a stem in a restaurant setting.
Do you have a link, by chance? I tried to find it, but was unsuccessful.
used to get Zaltos for free, worked with the distrib –
they tend – across the spectrum – to work as aromatic amplifiers,
for my money pulling a wine slightly out of balance
the one Zalto that i cannot live without is the Pilsner glass
Funny, I searched Josephine on phone and got 10 threads on the glasses
If you’d bother searching for the right term, maybe you’d get what you’re looking for. It’s josephinen, not josephine, and there’s not more than 1 review on the red No 3 glass.
I personally find them generally not worth the money but if unique glass shapes are your thing, then this is a good fit; I see them as a product of form over function.
Was wondering about these glasses as well. Wanted to know if it was worth the dinero.
I bought some. Very fragile and light. Definitely a novelty. I only have have a few high end wine glasses like Grassl and Glasvin. Use them when I open something really special. I buy cheaper glasses because I’m so clumsy I break a lot.
Not sure of the numbers but these showed up a lot on a recent trip to Germany at wineries and restaurants. Very thin, elegant and all that, wines taste nice out of them. I think they are kind of ugly and look more like a rancio glass than wine.
But they sort of grew one me. A little.
I won’t get them, I have plenty of these thin, fragile glasses that I don’t use. I handwash everything so being this fragile isn’t great for me. Also, the base of the bowl has the little cone shape, meaning it isn’t a flat bottom and from the handful of glasses I’ve had with that feature make it a pain to clean. Perhaps some lazy rinsing didn’t help me, ymmv.
Brian, have you done a side by side against any other glassware of similar quality (e.g. Zalto, Sophienwald, or Grassl)? If so, could you post your impressions?
Zaltos, for all of their fragile appearance, are surprisingly sturdy
all-thumbs i have broken far more Riedels…
I haven’t done a comparison. I should do so next time I pull a special bottle out and let you know
I got a couple and will keep them in the rotation, but I don’t know that I’ll buy more and make them my “go to” glass. I found them especially beneficial for some white Burgundy, improving the aromatic profile and giving me the sensation of a bit more concentration on the palate.
Alex, which glass did you buy? I’m assuming you’re talking about the white, but the universal also looks nearly identical, aside from a slightly wider bowl/profile.
Josephinen No 3