Has anyone got really nice wine glasses?

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I've realised that we haven't got any sets of matching wine glasses any more because they have got broken over time - we used to have loads but I can't even find four matching ones now. So I'm looking to get some new ones and wondered if anyone has some that they would recommend? Open to all types!

We have La Rochere Perigord as well—a full set including wine glasses, champagne flutes, water glasses and fruit dishes. I love them because they're sturdy but elegant, and tactile to handle. They're also easy to replace if they get broken, as they're a long-standing La Rochere design.

@OolongTeaDrinker it’s apparently a thing associated with glass corruption.

Yes, but you drink far much more in those big round ones !

Waterford Kylemore. Classic.

We also have those, most of my glassware is La Rochere as they are sturdy and survive many dishwashings and haven't gone cloudy, also not to high in the dishwasher. I also have several different designs of the fruit dishes and sundae glasses.

Yes I hate overly tall, overly large and overly fragile / spindly glasses. Impractical in every way, and not very comfortable to drink out of either. I always feel on edge with them, they're too top-heavy. It's very hard to knock over a La Rochere.

Also tulip-shaped champagne flutes are annoying, you have to tip them really far back to drink from them. The Perigord ones are perfect, I hope they never discontinue them.

I have old-fashioned taste in glassware though, everything is way too big these days. Cocktail glasses especially—cocktails should be in small servings, drunk while still ice-cold, not in a giant martini glass, or those god-awful gin bowls.

We still use Dartington Rachel glasses that we were given as a wedding present 35 years ago! Just very simple and elegant. Even if they don't do the exact same design any more, I would certainly recommend Dartington. (Only downside is that they're not dishwasher-safe).

Yes, @3kgNET !

I bought them when I was a post grad and was sick of wine glasses getting broken at parties. Most of them have survived to serve the next generation of students. They don’t seem to be sold in the UK any more 🫤

@Another2Cats those are the vintage mid century green stemmed Luminarc glasses I was talking about! Love them 💕 They also made matching red wine glasses and champagne flutes but they obviously weren’t as popular as they are hard to find, Those are in use by the fourth generation in our family 😁 Although they are kept out of the way of the fifth generation along with the Riedel glasses as they remind us of my lovely French grandmother (their great great grandmother), who was their original owner, despite the fact they were the equivalent of Ikea in their day 😂 I love them more than any of her fancy stuff ❤️

"...those are the vintage mid century green stemmed Luminarc glasses I was talking about! Love them 💕"

Well, I don't know about vintage, but ours perhaps just about count as mid century at a stretch. My parents got them when we were on holiday in France in 1981.

"...despite the fact they were the equivalent of Ikea in their day 😂"

Very much this. These were nothing special, just the ordinary glasses that all the local wineries would have available to sell to tourists when you visited them.

Go on EBay. There’s beautiful glassware and crystal from top names for a fraction of what you’d pay in a department store.

They were designed mid century, @Another2Cats, and graced many a G Plan teak cocktail cabinet in the 60s and 70s 😂 They are designed as hock glasses, and that was very much the era of hock drinking 😁

Sadly for both of us, even 1981 is somewhat “vintage”. I was horrified to spot a “90s specialist vintage shop” when we visited one of the DC at university 😂

I buy crystal glasses from charity shops. ALways wonderful and no chips etc. And eco friendly.They used to be incredibly cheap. I bought a set of Waterford crystal wineglasses last week for £10. Six glasses.

M&S Maxim Wine Glasses

We have always had these, they’re thin ones and I much prefer that. They look much more expensive than they are and are always stocked so easy to replace. I’ve had many expensive sets bought over the years but these are my favourites.

I buy hand blown cut lead crystal glasses in my local "antiques and bric-a-brac" market days in Devon. My family, and some friends, all have beautiful crystal tumblers, some from quite celebrated glass makers that I have found, and I have rarely paid more than £25 for a half-dozen. I keep an eye out for nice ones, even singles. But I don't buy sherry or liqueur glasses, even though there are some trophy examples, because we have boxes of inherited ones from the 1940s and 1950s that we haven't used in 30 years.

We've got some lovely stemless ones. They used to have Nutella in. And as a bonus, whenever one breaks, I have to buy another jar of Nutella to replace it 🤷🏼‍♀️

I think we need a picture @AnotherDunromin if you wouldn't mind. I am struggling to imagine a Nutella jar repurposed as a drinking vessel...........

@AnotherDunromin oh yes! We have some of those. Like tiny tumblers. I use one every morning to take my tablets :)

"... and graced many a G Plan teak cocktail cabinet in the 60s and 70s 😂"

It's quite surprising (or, maybe, it actually isn't) that G Plan furniture is now becoming quite sought after and going up in price.

For me growing up, that was furniture my parents and their friends had. To me it was just everyday furniture.

But I think it's only with the passing of a bit of time that you can come to look at something a little bit more objectively and perhaps see in the furniture elements of style that you didn't when you were younger as this furniture was just so ubiquitous at the time.

Although there may also be an element of nostalgia as well. People now remember this furniture from when they were young and, being older, are now able to pay a bit more for it.

Going even further off-topic. Back in the late 1980s my DH then had a second hand Ford Capri. Cheap as anything to buy at the time. Today, good examples of the car will set you back £20k (for a 45 year old car!!!).

But I guess that's largely down to men (like my DH) wishing to relive their youth!

If anyone is old enough to remember an ITV series called "The Professionals" that ran from 1977 to 1983 (one of the stars was Martin Shaw who later went on to play Judge John Deed and then Inspector George Gently).

There were two Ford Capris that appeared prominently in the show. They were sold at auction in 2023 for £186,000 (even though they had been driven by the other guy!).

We are now a couple of generations on from the 1970s and things from back then are starting to gain in value.

I like them, but it says, they are not dishwasher? safe. Do you hand wash yours?

It says "A toughened glass construction makes them durable enough to withstand the rigours of the busiest home, bar or restaurant and, being completely dishwasher safe, care and cleaning at the end of the night could not be easier." Go for it!

Charity shops

cant bear stemless and has to be thin glass and elegant, wine doesnt taste as good otherwise!

I’m a fan of LSA glasswear - with / without a stem

@papyrophile Happy to oblige (photo from t'internet because I cba to go photograph mine in the kitchen)

These are my absolute favourites: SPIEGELAU Authentis White Wine

I'm a bit of a glassware obsessive and I love these glasses - they feel expensive, not necessarily 'heavy' but nicely weighted and the height is lovely too.