History of Wine Glasses
In between 23-79 AD Pliny, an ancient author wrote about gold and
silver drinking vessels. The oldest surviving European wine glasses with
a stem and a foot are enamled goblets. The earliest surviving English
wine glasses are diamond-engraved glasses that were produced near the
end of the sixteenth-century by Verzelini. Plain straight stems gained
popularity around 1740, with air twist stems being introduced about the
same time. Later with the passage of time wine glasses became more
popular and started coming in a range of styles and shapes.
Features of Wine Glasses
- Wine glasses are made for drinking wine, of
course, but people are creative and have found other uses ranging
from combining several wine glasses to construct a glass harp to
using stemware in a similar manner to provide sound education.
- Wine is served at a desired temperature and a increase in
temperature can yield unpleasant and unwanted characteristics. To
combat this wine glasses are hold from the stem so that the heat of
your hands does not alter the taste of the wine in the glass.
