I also love dishwashing glasses in particular because 1) They generally come out much clearer 2) Every. This was a big selling point for me – actively using a dishwasher has changed my life. Hand-washing can add pressure and torque to the bowl, stem and base which can cause breakage and potential injury.” So for the first several months of ownership, I dutifully and happily cleaned the dishes in the dishwasher. Per the Wine Enthusiast’s website, “It is recommended that Zalto glasses be cleaned in a dishwasher. This is my biggest beef with the Zalto glasses. The main thing that’s stopped me from purchasing more is the chip potential, which I go in to a bit more below. We reach for them time and time again, and they’re our “default” glasses for date nights (aka basically all weekends since we don’t imbibe during the week). I’m happy to say that the novelty has yet to wane down for this beautiful glassware. Review of the Zalto glasses after a few uses There’s something very obviously different about them when you see them in person. There’s also something about even just looking at them that make them utterly luxurious and great to elevate any date night. While I didn’t have the courage to test if I could really squeeze them, as they do at the 8:20 mark in this video, the glasses feel impossibly thin in your hand. On first impression, the glasses were well packed in fancy packaging, which I appreciated and expect at this price point ($59.00 / glass).

a varietal or red/white specific) since this way we could enjoy them across all of our wines. We went with the Zalto Denk’Art Universal Glasses (vs. Also my favorite Peloton Facebook group (shoutout #pelowinos), who are completely my people and have fabulous taste, often touted the incredible feel of the glasses and I quite simply loved how they look so I decided to get just two, just for us. While they are all lovely, beautiful and thin glasses with a delicate rim, they didn’t bring the OOMPH we were quite looking for. Our previous everyday glasses – from L to R the Hip Large Red, the Viv All Purpose Red, and Schott Zweisel’s Tritan line

Schott Zweisel Tritan Glasses – 6 for $66.94 for my whites 🙂.

Crate and Barrel’s Viv All Purpose Red Wine Glass $4.95 – for parties and everything else.

These are almost comically large but the menfolk love ’em

Crate and Barrel’s Hip Large Red $6.95 – for his Napa reds.

Because if a pandemic isn’t a special event what is?! Which leads me to… Why I bought the Zalto Denk’Art Universal Wine Glassesīefore buying the Zalto glasses we had three daily drinkers in rotation in addition to the classic Riedel glasses (pictured left to right): The fiancé was more interested in the food 🙂įast forward to covid, we found ourselves spending a lot of quality time at home and drinking all the “good” wine. Circa 2019 – I liked the Zalto glass so much when I first encountered it that I took a picture at Angler during dinner. I hurriedly jotted down the brand and didn’t think about it again after looking up the price later – it simply wasn’t worth it at the time. When my wine came out, I remember saying to my fiancé, “Damn, that’s a nice glass!” and we both stared at it in awe under the light. Like it’s sister restaurant Saison, it’s inspired by smokey flavors, a robust wine list (basically a book) and an even more impressive bill at the end! Funnily one of the most memorable moments of both of these dinners involved incidents with wine.

They may or may not chip at the edge in your dishwasherĪhh, I remember that the first time I tried a Zalto glass it was at Angler, a hip new seafood restaurant set on the Embarcadero waterfront in San Francisco, CA.

Wine simply tastes better in them (could be my imagination but isn’t much about wine sense and imagination?).

Zalto glasses are beautiful and noticeably different – even in photos people will comment on them and notice them.Glasses range from $55 – 61 per glass, with no bulk discounts.

Quick summary review of the Zalto wine glasses: