People who know about culture and stuff...come here and settle an argument!

[MumblingRagDoll]

A year ago I bought a set of very nice wine glasses a bit like these from Laura Ashley...I got them on sale and tbh because I don't even DRINK wine, I thought it was nice of me as DH had no decent glasses to have wine and he likes it.

DH thinks I'm an oik because "You just don't drink wine from a red glass" apparently

He says that to see the colour of the wine is part of the "experience" of drinking it.

He's a fecking wine snob...he'l sit there discussing the stuff with his parents and it annoys me.

So. Am I an unclutured oik? Eh? Am I? AIBU to buy red wine glasses?

My favourite glasses at the moment for everyday use are these from Sainsbury's.

They are heavy and robust, feel good quality, and the drinking rim is just the right thickness. They are perfect for any drink, from coke to G&T to beer, etc, not just wine. We love 'em.

Thanks for the links! However I won't be spending 50 nicker on an "eronomic Swirling Glass"

But fellatio's Sainsbo's ones are nice!

Pffffft. Slosh wine into nearest container and drink it (obviously drinking from the bottle is a bridge too far...). I have been known to use a jam jar. Although it was a clear jam jar; I'm not a total savage...

You could cut plastic water bottles in half and present your DH with a delicately poured 'glassful'. They are CLEAR, after all.

fellatio's really cool glasses, I will order them tonight, thanks.

There are cheaper ones! You could get him one or two for his next birthday or for Christmas :)

You didn't buy wine glasses. What you bought were Sodastream glasses. Big difference.

Some bargains here too

You can drink wine from whatever glass you fucking well like.

That glass is shaped like a wine glass so what is the problem? You can't do super-in-depth analysis on the colour (which I accept is a part of wine tasting) but you can drink wine from it perfectly well.

(only replying to OP)

I once drank port and brandy out of a gravy boat and I defy any fucker that says I aren't cultured so there. I like the glasses and they would surely give an air of Transylvanian mystique to any formal gathering.

Look! I'll get him some of these!

or these!

Transylvanian mystique is what my dinner parties have been lacking all these years, and it's because I didn't know about red glasses. It's no wonder I'm a social outcast.

Geraldine is quite right.

Mumbling - you've upped your game. The second lot are Class Personified.

Arf at 'I aren't cultured'

Trillian - exactly. Do whatever the fuck you like.

I'm pissing myself at those glasses

I actually want to buy those lady ones for my friend, she'd love them.

I tell you what, droves of people demand invites for my lurid, gaudy crockery bestrewn shindigs. I'm beating them of with an unmentionably smeared stick. Cultured is not really the word.

Next time just give him the bottle and a straw.

he's being a snob, give him a pint glass if he wants to see it, better yet tell him to drink pints like a real man just for a giggle :)

kiki22 I found the perfect solution for your suggestion

Winestein

The poshest people I know; seriously she?s related to royalty and not in the ?my aunts BF shagged the duchess of Kent?s 2nd housemaids sister?, proper real royalty. And they live in his family house that?s they can trace back to being in the family to the 1600?s

Anyway as well as having a wine cellar, swoon, they drink wine out of these
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Am too pissed to do links

Posted too soon, been in the cellar

what I was trying to say is if they'll drink out of them boo sucks to your DH.

You can fit a whole bottle of wine in a vase, which saves having to fill it with expensive flowers and negates the need for fashionably coloured glassware.