Buy Riedel Vinum Brandy / Cognac Snifter, Set of 4Riedel Vinum Brandy / Cognac Snifter, Set of 4 Product Description:
- 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
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Snap 'em up before they're gone
By Bob Carpenter
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.Cognac Snifter
By Jack Beery
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.
3 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Riedel makes a better glass
By Lynn Hoffman, author:The Short Course in Beer
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,TheNow 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,Theand the perfectly shaped bang BANG: A Novel
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