Riedel Vinum Brandy / Cognac Snifter, Set of 4

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Product Features

• Four glasses made for brandy or cognac
• Balloon-style bowl shaped for holding and wafting aroma to nose
• Machine-made, 24-percent lead crystal
• Made in Bavaria by world's premier wine glass maker
• 6 inches tall; capacity of 29-5/8 ounces

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 4.8 x 6 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00004SZ84
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #132,641 in Kitchen & Dining (See Bestsellers in Kitchen & Dining)

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Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Austria's Riedel is the world's premier manufacturer of wine glasses and, with this set of four brandy snifters, the company makes a foray into designing glasses for other beverages. Like the wine glasses in Riedel's Vinum series, these snifters are made of 24-percent lead crystal. The bulbous balloon-style bowl on each glass is specifically shaped for drinkers to cup the bottom and warm the brandy or cognac with one hand. Coupled with the narrower rim on the glass, the bowl is also designed to waft the liquor's aroma to the nose with each sip. Each glass stands 6 inches high and holds a copious 29-5/8 ounces of brandy or cognac; however, it is customary to pour just a few ounces at a time for sipping. --Cristina Vaamonde

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Snap 'em up before they're gone, January 4, 2002

By	Bob Carpenter (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

Riedel has discontinued these snifters. For Cognac (and I suppose that goes for Armagnac and other brandies), Riedel's now suggesting the "Hennesy Cognac" glasses, code 416/71, which look like their port glasses with flared rims. If you love snifters and don't care if the trendy oenophiles turn up their noses, go ahead and get a case of these. Personally, I like nothing better than to roll cognac around in a snifter after dinner. Like the other Vinum glasses, the brandy snifters are grandly scaled, wonderfully balanced and gorgeously proportioned. None of the nose-stuck-in-the-bowl problem that you get with some snifters.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cognac Snifter, January 19, 2004

By	Jack Beery (Canandaigua, New York USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased these glasses for a special occasion. They are a great glass for celebrating. Like other Reidel glasses, they are light and enjoyable to drink out of. We also have the 416/71 and for cognac I'll take this glass.

5 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Riedel makes a better glass, January 1, 2008

By	Lynn Hoffman, author:The Short Course in Beer (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Try this: grab a snifter and a small tulip-shaped wine glass. Measure identical amounts of cognac and pour into each glass. Wait a minute or two and then sniff the bouquets. Does it seem more pronounced from any particular one?
If one of the glasses seems to nurture a more profound bouquet, wait a few minutes and repeat the experiment. This time, sniff the most productive glass after you have tried all the other. If it still promotes the bouquet more than the others, you can be sure that the shape is the difference. This experiment is one of several inNew Short Course in Wine,The
Now take a taste from each of the glasses. Was there a clear-cut winner? If there was, why wouldn't you use that glass for all the cold beverages that you drink? If you're a relentlessly scientific type, you might try this experiment with both a cheap wine and a more expensive one. You could continue on, sampling reds and whites, sweet wines and dry.

The results of my experiments with glasses suggest that brandy snifters are a waste of time and good brandy.
Reach instead for the smaller, tulip shaped spirits glass.

Lynn Hoffman, author of New Short Course in Wine,The
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