Best Stemless Wine Glasses

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Dropping the stem changes two things, and only one of them is about looks. Your palm now wraps the bowl, so a white poured at cellar temperature warms measurably faster, which is why stemless suits reds and anything you drink briskly rather than a wine you nurse for an hour. The second change is storage: a stemless bowl stacks into an ordinary cabinet and sits in a dishwasher rack without the stem snapping that makes stemware tiresome to clean. Capacities cluster more tightly than the listings suggest, roughly 12 to 18 ounces, and since a pour is five ounces the gap is headspace rather than servings. Twelve ounces still reads as a wine glass; 18 ounces doubles as a cocktail tumbler and a water glass, which is frequently the actual reason people switch. The rim is where these glasses live or die, because a stemless bowl gets grabbed, stacked and clinked far more often than stemware, so a treated chip-resistant rim earns its cost. Around a pool, a patio or a boat, Tritan copolyester at about 13 ounces is worth considering: it is effectively unbreakable and passes for glass at arm's length, though it scratches and hazes after enough dishwasher heat. Buy in higher counts than you think you need.