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?

Suspect the romans drank out of coloured glasses a) because clear glass was more expensive or difficult to make and b) because then they wouldn't see the sediment and flaky fish poo in their wine... :)

We live in Paris, Tilly, in an apartment in a typically Parisian Haussmann building. It's called a salon. It wouldn't by any stretch of the imagination be called a "lounge" or even a "sitting room."

But yes, it was slightly tongue in cheek.

If he is that poncetastic, tell him to pretend that they are Riedel blind tasting glasses and to do his wine tasting properly. The Riedel blind tasting glasses are BLACK, precisely so that you can't tell the colour of the wine.

I am of the andrewgg school here- you can drink the stuff out of a vase for all i care, just take the flowers out first.

AUSTRALIAN????? ME????

"It's a drink. Do you really hold every glass up to the light to admire the colour, swill it round in your mouth/the glass before you drink a bottle of Tesco's Three Quid Malbec? "

OH does . Although it would probably be £6 Malbec rather than £3 Malbec.
He sits there swirling wine round and round in his glass sniffing it in between mouthfuls. It irritates the hell out of me and I tell him just to drink the stuff. He says it increases the pleasure of drinking the wine.

He is a cork dork.

I have silver goblets for wine...

There's nothing wrong with them either and you can't see through them.

I'd just use the red ones at Christmas though, for a "festive" look - but I would use normal glass ones on a daily basis (the silver ones are a PITA to handwash when the glass ones go in the dishwasher).

Actually, my favourite wine goblet is this one - it's not quite a half-bottle glass but it's plenty big enough. :)

My DH is Aussie. Wine is the one cultural thing they can claim to know more about apparently...because thy grow grapes. I'm still about that.

I like this idea of 'blind testing' gives weight to my theory that it's perfectly ok to serve wine in ceramic mugs (some with some without handles). Of course in the interests of aeration and good taste you can choose from 'whimsical owl' or sheepdogs galloping frieze'. I of course go for 'smarties Easter egg mug '99) as I am clearly the poshest.

Mind you, some people are fussy about what they drink tea out of as well. I think they have super sensitive taste buds. SIL won't drink tea out of a mug - she insists on a china cup and saucer because she thinks it tastes better.

I hope you enjoyed my reckless use of punctuation there as well.

mumbling, your DH should know that they grow grapes in the UK as well. OK, the wine might not be the best, but grapegrowing is not a defining point of culture.
(my DH is Aussie too but he doesn't claim to know more about wine than I do - just as well, probably! )

we used to stab the cork down with the handle end of a butter knife and share the plonk around the communal circle. Oh to be a student again.

No, red wine goes in the big glass, and white in the little one. Water in a medium tall tumbler and never ever should there be any pint glasses with logos on then in your household. Fizz in champagne glasses and cocktails in martini glasses. Thems are the rules.

also the glasses you bought OP are horrif..two tone stem wear? I don't think so.

Eurgh! I hate I when people "discuss" wine, wankers!

"My DH is Aussie. Wine is the one cultural thing they can claim to know more about apparently...because thy grow grapes."

No country that sells 'goon' can claim cultural superiority

MQ - what the hell is "goon"? I've just asked DH and he doesn't know.

I would be judgey about coloured wine glasses. I judge people who put too much wine in a wine glass. My father has riedel glasses of different sizes for different wines. I am Australian.

We used to have giant blue wine glasses.

In our defence, it was 1996, we were early 20s and Monica in Friends used them!!

These days, coloured glasses have gone the same way as coloured bathroom suites, imo.

(Will now read thread)

I think goon is cask wine

I find after the first two bottles I couldnt care less what the receptacle is, I will still be listening to Barry manilow and phoning people telling them inappropriate things which were better left unsaid, clear glass or not.

thanks ttl - cheap box wine, yes, got it. But then the French do that stuff as well for the UK market.

Sorry, not just the French of course! Pretty much everyone does it for the UK market (don't know about their own markets)

Ok, so some people drink wine to get drunk, some people drink wine because they enjoy it and are interested in it. The first group don't care what they drink it in, the latter group do. And they both judge each other. And that's it.

Cask wine, of course, is drunk in a plastic cup