Wow, that wine glass post reminds me of this.

Re wine glasses:

http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/shattered_myths

Not that I'm advocating drinking wine from plastic cups, but still. The article linked to is ridiculous. Someone's really drinking the Riedel koolaid.

Everyone's right about the gyoza maker. Don't waste your money. Putting filling into a wrapper and pinching the edges shut takes about five seconds.

Thanks for the link to the Gourmet article. I always suspected Riedel was just snakeoil.

Heh, that gyoza maker is insane. The simple foldy kind is super easy, so why make it more complex?

LOL @ jesseg

The Serious Eats post on wine glasses is complete pseudoscience.

I love the informality of drinking table wine in countries like Italy and France. I recommend something like this: http://www.aplusrstore.com/product_detail.php?show=product&pid=165

Although the cups are not plastic, they are pretty sturdy.

I thought the article was interesting -- had never considered matching the $ value of a bottle of wine with the $ value of the glass. My best champagne glasses are $12 per flute; and the cava I drink regularly costs $9.

A friend of mine drinks wine in handmade glazed ceramic cups... it without a doubt added a strange tinge to the flavor of the wine. Plastic cups may not change the flavor of the wine, but there are other senses involved than just taste when enjoying vino.

There's a difference between a glazed ceramic container changing the flavor (adding chemical flavors, probably) and saying that a more expensive or differently shaped glass does. Keep in mind who is preaching the "match the value of the wine you drink to the value of your glasses" rule - of course Riedel wants you to spend hundreds on their glasses, and buy a different glass for every varietal. If you read the Gourmet article, you'll see the studies that found it's expectations that impact taste and enjoyment, not glass quality, material, or shape.

Personally, matching the cost of a wine glass with the value of the bottle is absolute and complete B.S.

I don't care what people say, unless you're a total oenophile (and even then I doubt it) the taste difference between one type of glass and another is negligible. It's like people who buy $200 headphones for their iPod.

This is also written in the tone that an $80 bottle of wine is always going to be better than a $20 bottle of wine, which we all (hopefully) know is not true. I can't tell you how many sub-$20 bottles I've had that have blown away $80 bottles of wine.

longhornem, I didn't say that I agreed with the article, I just said that I found it interesting. Also, I probably sidetracked by mentioning the glazed ceramic cup. To clarify, I don't think plastic cups or glazed ceramic cups are great for drinking wine... glass is best, whether it's cheap or crystal. One last note, the glazed ceramic cup was cracked and super glue had been applied to hold it together. ...rather than posting this on AT, I should probably let my friend now that it's not a great idea, toxins-wise, to drink out if it!

I spent a week with gypsies in southern Spain
riding horses. We had great wine poured into small cups, tall glasses, even right out of the bottle. It was a great experience and at no moment did anyone have an attitude
that it must be sipped from a particular glass while wearing
a particular shirt while standing in a particular pose with my pinky in the air. Just good folks, having a good time, drinking
great wine with no worries.

It is only a beverage. Don't worry about it.

Amen - Ghostfish.

My dad is great friends with the owners of a local winery and in the summer they have Wine Tasting cookouts at the beach and they serve the wine in plastic (monogrammed) cups and no one says anything.