Wednesday, May 12, 2010
ENJOYING CHAMPAGNE BUBBLES
I donated 24 blown hollow-stem champagne glasses to our public TV auction. They didn't get a bid. New champagnes are all flute shape. Maybe those of us who remember the bubbling champagne glasses pictured on neon signs during Art Deco days already own hollow-stem champagne glasses. Those of us who don't remember those days don't know what fun it is to watch champagne bubbles dancing around in the stem.
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I much prefer coupe glasses but can't seem to find to any.
My guess would be the starting bid was set too high to garner interest.
I, too grew up with hollow stem Champagne glasses and knew them to be for Champagne only in order to watch the glorious bubbles. If donor to public tv auction would like to still find them a home.
Please contact me.
Today most people know that champagne bubbles need to be confined, and the coupe glasses open the wine to the air, and in minutes the wine is flat.
The flue is the correct and perfect glass for champagne. So other then looking at them they are not much good if you want to enjoy the champagne you are drinking
and yet the hollow stems are such fun! My son had some punch in a disposable coupe glass at a wedding and I wound up nabbing a set off EBay for general beverage use just for the fun of it! Juice, kool-aid, soda-its all more glamorous that way!
I to have a large set of hollow stem, American champagne classes. They were also used and still can be used to make champagne coctails by adding the blackberry, apricot,or peach brandy to the stem then capping off with a pour of champagne. I love my flutes but honestly, champagne doesn't stay in my glass long enough to go flat!
There are coupe glasses around. legend has it that Marie Antoinettes glass maker in the 1779's designed the coupe shape using her breasts as an inspiration!
(He might have had his head chopped off if he told anyone that!)and see the refutation of that fact!
http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/champagne.asp
Signed
A British Glass maker!
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