Riedel Veloce Riesling wine glass (set of 2)

Riedel's Veloce series is the result of a clever piece of technology. The glasses are machine-made, but feel as if they were mouth-blown. Feather-light and wafer-thin, they sit wonderfully in the hand and you hardly feel it when you put them to your lips.

Riedel designed Veloce Riesling so that the glass perfectly emphasizes the sweet-sour balance. You can serve both dry and sweet Rieslings from this glass, from a refined Kabinett to an intensely sweet Trockenbeerenauslese. Thanks to the spacious bowl, not only classic Rieslings from Germany, Austria or Alsace do well in these glasses, but Rieslings from Australia or New Zealand also come into their own.

For this series, Riedel has come up with a new trick: the grape variety is indicated on the foot of the glass. This way, you can easily see at a glance which glass you need to take out of the cupboard for which purpose.

And the name Veloce? It refers to the ever-faster developing technology, which now allows machines to virtually imitate the craft of glassblowing. A good thing, because it makes the production process a lot more efficient.