I have greatest respect for Professor Bainbridge, who bestrides the legal wine community like a colossus. But his
recommendations on wines and wine glasses favor the income non-deprived.
Allow me to recommend the poor man's substitute:
Pier 1 has an inexpensive, durable
plain glass stemware collection. I bought ten each of the classic wine, classic balloon, and classic flute when they were on sale about six months ago. Now, the quality of manufacture is average; there are certain stems that are not properly finished. But on a budget, I can set a table for eight for any kind of wine they may want.
And it's absolutely true that even an okay glass makes the wine taste better, as anyone who's tailgated on an officially dry campus (like Ole Miss's) can tell you. Few things taste as bad in a plastic cup as a nice pinot noir.
