Veritas Cabernet/Merlot

These are my favorite wine glasses. They have a beautiful shape, lightweight, good feel. I’m funny about my wine glasses and super picky. These are top notch. My other ones got broken after a few years and I had to replace them, I love them that much. Worth the money.

Riedel Veritas are the best wine glasses I’ve ever owned! The thin seamless stems are incredibly elegant and the thin bowls enhance the wine’s nose and palate. They feel light and balanced in your hand (everything else now feels clunky). We’ve had them for years and have never broken one. We wash them in the dishwashers and occasionally by hand. I don’t understand how people think they’re fragile, just treat them like what they are — an investment in your wine enjoyment.

A very good all around glass for almost any wine, whether red or white, including sparkling wine. Not that this means that some other Riedel Sommeliers glass will not outperform it in side by side comparison. Certainly, dramatically better than the Zalto, in whatever variation that one chooses and at half the Zaltos's cost. Works extremely well for New World Pinot Noir even in side by side comparisons with the Riedel Sommeliers Burgundy glass that is almost 4X the cost per glass. And for New World Pinot Noir outperforms the Sommeliers Burgundy. Hard, if not impossible, to fault the Riedel Veritas New World Pinot Noir Glass. Very elegant, thin rim, light, and relatively speaking large volume capacity for the same wine Sommeliers. Not that anyone should try to use any wine glass to its full volume capacity. Of course, it is "fragile." But that comes with the territory and if one is not comfortable with that, than don't buy this glass. Riedel has certainly refined their manufacturing technique because the Veritas glasses for a given wine actually hold more volume than the Sommeliers for the same wine, except for the Bordeaux and Burgundy glasses. And the rim can't be more than a 0.1mm thicker than the Sommeliers Burgundy glass, if that.

We were first introduced to these glasses on a wine tour in Oregon. All the wineries use them. They are perfect for New World Pinots, enhancing the bouquet and taste of the wine. However, the stems are very thin and fragile. Use extra care while washing and drying. Also, the price fluctuation is crazy on these glasses. I’ve seen them as low as $49 and as high as $75 on Amazon since September.

Gorgeous cabernet glasses. My husband and I absolutely love these. Beautiful shape enhances the profiles of your cabernet. A word of earning, though... if you are clumsy, these are not the glasses for you. They are so thin, the slightest bump against anything and they'll shatter. For the price, I wouldn't recommend.

Let me start by saying I am not a big fan of Reidel wine glasses and I don't think you need a different wine glass for each varietal. That said, I was in the market for some new wine glasses and I did a bunch of research, which led to to try these wine glasses and my wife and I were not disappointed! These are by far the best wine glasses we have ever used! They look great and just feel good in your hand! And they are just the right thickness to give a really good feel when you are drinking from them.

I bought these for my husband for Christmas (I'm not a wine drinker) and he absolutely LOVES them!! He said they take an average wine to a whole new level!! They really make the whole experience of drinking wine much better...taste, smell, touch, sight...everything! If you are on the fence, just buy these!! You won't regret it!

These glasses are amazing! They're second in the Riedel line only to the Sommelier Grand Cru's. They are just as delicate too. You must treat these and all Riedel glasses as they are - top of the line wine glasses. They are light, they are thin, and they will break if you put them in a dishwasher or wash them with too much pressure by hand! Think feather..... Don't listen to the troubled, angry souls on other reviews that broke theirs. They're just salty that they broke on them.