Mrs. Bluebell, New York
Age and Occupation in 07: 26, Finance Manager
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Playing with the cat and/or Consulting
Engagement Date: December 25, 2005
Wedding Date: June 2007
Venue: Bride's family summer home in the Adirondacks
About Me: Trying to find the perfect balance between family tradition (marrying at the house everyone else in my family gets married at), making our's modern, interesting and different from everyone else in my family's, and incorporating some Chinese tradition for my Chinese fiance. I really have no idea what it's going to end up looking like!
Also, I picked Miss Bluebell for my name because I have blue eyes and I'm a loser like that.
Registry: Wine Glasses
September 17th, 2007 @ 3:28 pm by Mrs. Bluebell
I feel like almost everyone knows that there are different types of wine glasses for different types of wine…but how many people actually care? Registry advice lists often say to at least get a set of red wine glasses and one for white wine (plus of course champagne, martini, cocktail, water, juice…), but there are also different glasses for different specific varieties of wine, such as a bordeaux vs. a pinot noir. The New York Times has an article today on wine glasses for particular varietals, but I must admit, I’m not fully convinced. How about you? Are you registering for different types of wine glasses?
*not including champagne glasses, or glass vs. expensive crystal if you have one type of each but they are both meant to drink the same type of wine (or all wine, just in formal vs. informal occasions)
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I must admit that we only registered for one type of glass, even though we drink a decent amount of wine and I feel like we have a fairly good grasp of different types, but…we were given a completely different type of glass! And you know what? They are just fine. 
So, picky wine glass people we are not.
Can you taste a difference when you have the same type of wine out of two different glasses? How important is having the “proper” type of glass to you, even if you can’t taste a difference?
12 Responses to “Registry: Wine Glasses”
We actually registered for three types of wine glasses - red, white, and stemless.
even if we had gone with a traditional registry we wouldn’t have ordered them because we already have wine glasses. One set of general red for guests, and two individual glasses for when the two of us have wine with dinner.
Here’s what I say when people ask me your question at work (PT at Sur La Table). What do you usually drink? If you have to pick a varietal glass, then go for the one that you usually drink, because if you get a good bottle of wine, it will make a difference, and that’s what you like to drink, so let your favorite wine shine. You can still serve any wine in that glass. ‘most’ people won’t notice the difference.
meduzagirl, I think that is great advice, and what we are doing now since P is in law school and we are POOR. 
For people that really are into wine appreciation (and us when P has an income again), the specific types of glasses are important–they are designed to get the wine to the different spots of your tongue that will really highlight the best qualities of the wine. And they do really make a difference in the aroma, which is 80% of taste. (If you want a fun illustration of the importance of specific glasses for wine/spirits, put some grappa into a wine glass and into a grappa glass–the difference in aroma will be drastic.)
None - we already owned some wine glasses. We did get a set of crystal ones though, which I guess we will save for special occasions.
We registered for red wine glasses with a big ol’ bowl at Crate & Barrel, and stemless b/c both of us like stemless not only for white, but b/c those glasses can do “double duty” for baileys on the rocks, etc.
We did register for port wine glasses (the hubs loves that stuff) and champagne flutes, too.
Eventually we’ll probably have white wine glasses as well, but right now we don’t have a ton of space so it’s just as well. Plus we can pour white into the stemless.
I’m just going to register for a decanter and then we’ll just pass it around at parties like those jugs in hillbilly cartoons. What, something wrong with that?!
I love dessert wine, we registered for those along with other glasses for varous white and reds. Reidel was great with this.
Quite a lot of this specific glass stuff was created by the French glass industry-red,white and dessert wine-but the varietals glasses are mostly like Hallmark holidays so to speak. That said,unless you are a very serious wine person,you will probably not notice.
I wasn’t sure which button to press so I am answering here. We registered for one nice set of wine glasses, one cheap set from Crate & Barrel, and one nice set of champagne glasses. And martini glasses.
We didn’t register for any stemware, yet we now have red wine goblets, white wine glasses, martini glasses, magarita glasses, and champagne flutes in our cabinets.
Miss Kiwi - There is nothing wrong with that at all. Just make sure you have a towel to wipe off the lip of the decanter. 
nina nina - I’ll be honest with you, I almost fell asleep while the Riedel rep was going through the illustrious company history but he would want me to point out that they are AUSTRIAN, not French.
I feel like almost everyone knows that there are different types of wine glasses for different types of wine…but how many people actually care? Registry advice lists often say to at least get a set of red wine glasses and one for white wine (plus of course champagne, martini, cocktail, water, juice…), but there are also different glasses for different specific varieties of wine, such as a bordeaux vs. a pinot noir.
