You say you 'looked all over' but do you mean you checked just retail outlets? Have you checked those replacement services that have crystal, china and silver pieces in just about every pattern ever made? Are they lead crystal?

Here is one:

Here is a link that might be useful: Wine Glass Replacement

Thanks for the link dily_dally. There is a lot of great glasses there.

I guess I shoulf have said that I have no idea who the manufacture is, anyone know how I can find the glass maker?

Try your Target on line store, to see if they might still have it, although after a few years, most stock is changed over to the newer, popular patterns.

If you are not able to find this old tried and true, do you think it would be ok to give yourself permission to try some new stemware for a change of pace? I know sometimes nothing else will do but the one thing you have your heart set on, but if you can't find it anymore...

After 12 years with my (bridal) Noritake stemware, I recently bought some very cheap, plain, clear glass stems from Wal Mart! I really like them, and since they were dirt cheap, no great catastrophe if they break!

I looked in to getting a set of the fancy crystal that everyone raves about in the wine appreciation magazines and books, but some of that brand go as high as 150-200 dollars per stem!!! That seemed pretentious to a laughable degree, when my favorite wine right now is under 20 dollars a bottle! When I win the lottery, maybe then I'll splurge on some finer things, but for now, I do really like my simple glasses!

Allison

Personally I wouldn't worry about replacing those glasses. Not to be insulting in any way, but they're fairly generic and you can find plenty of good glasses.

Those $150 glasses referred to were probably Reidel. They are hand-blown and supposedly made for specific grape varieties. I am quite skeptical about those claims. The glasses are also extremely fragile. But they make many other glasses and so do other companies.

Schott Zweissel is a German company that makes great glasses. They have a line called "Tritan" that isn't lead crystal but is supposedly stronger. So you can knock them over and they don't break, although if you drop them on the floor, they will. Great glasses. Also sold by Crate and Barrel under a proprietary name - "Loire". About $7 each and well worth the price and identical to the glasses sold under the "Forte" or other names elsewhere.

You can also get glass as opposed to crystal, for even less. Bed Bath and Beyond has some decent ones for $2 each, which is about what the originals in the post cost. And Target has plenty. Good luck!

The idea of a wine glass is to have a wider bowl that narrows towards the top. It gives the volatile gases a chance to evaporate and the narrowing rim concentrates them. Other than that, I don't believe much of the marketing for wine glasses that the wine mags talk about. But having used many dozens of glasses, I do like a decent stem.

Here is a link that might be useful: Crate and Barrel

Nope, not insulted at all, they were very generic and very inexpensive.

At the same time, they fit my hand nicely and the two of us sampled many a wines together. It's like an old friend whom I droped on the floor and shattered.

I visited Crate & Barrel, bed bath and beyond and Cost Plus today but I ended up buying a $20 set of 4 Luminarc glasses at Walmart. They weren't exactly what I wanted, at 10 inch and 19.5oz they were a little bigger and heaver than what I was looking for but oh well, I can pack more wine in the glass that way I guess. :)

Thanks for the tips and ideas. I did take a look at some of the Reidel glasses, they are nice but $60-200 a glass, no thanks. I cry enough over the spilled wine when I break a glass, I don't need to cry over the glass too.

Woody

Reidel makes several qualities of glasses....some mouth blown and some machine blown and the amount of lead in theg lass varies....but all are thin and delicate with a non rolled rim....which makes the wine taste better....and by the way are not fragile at all...they just look it.
Yeah...I have my share of cheap wine glasses but most of the time I use some Schott Zweisel crystal...with a fairly short stem that goes nicely into the dish washer.
Try Tuesday morning for good buys on glasses....if you ddon't care if your red wines match your white and your double old fashioned match your water glasses they have some very good buys.
Linda C

Here is a link that might be useful: cheap reidel glasses