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They look like the rubber grips your first grade teacher put on your pencil so you could learn to hold it correctly. I'll pass.

I thought of the pencil also. The only redeeming quality is that it teaches you where you should be holding the glass, but I wouldn't want to get snooty about it anyways, it just looks like a waste of money and resources.

would be a good gag gift for somebody who dropped a glass of red wine on your carpet!

I don't think it's snooty to show people how to hold the glass correctly...It's one of those pet peeves of mine, for sure, but in all honesty- if people hold it by the stem rather than the bowl, the whites will stay chilled longer, the reds won't get too warm, and the poor person charged with hand-washing the nice glasses won't have to scrub greasy prints off of 'em.

So in the spirit of "training wheels", I vote hot ;)

I've never had so much wine--nor seen someone who had so much wine--that holding on to the glass became a problem.

Even if there is a use to them, as STLcolleen suggests, they are still ugly.

Not. Unless you have arthritis.

I am not responsible enough for wine glasses so I just use round tumblers or stemless wine glasses. Even *I* would never go this far.

So, we pine away for and covet Riedel at $20 a stem and then adulterate their beauty with these? Um, no.

I probably wouldn't spend money and petroleum resources on such a thing, but I do find them amusing. I'm in favor of anything that annoys wine snobs! :o)