Kufstein, Austria

Georg Riedel designs a new wine glass collection consisting of three stemless wine tumblers based on the wine preferences of users; one glass for Aromatic White Wine/Champagne and two for Red, Pinot Noir, and Cabernet Sauvignon.

This design was recently awarded a 2021 Good Design Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

When Georg Riedel develops glass shapes, his primary focus is balanced flavors, a perfect equilibrium between the intensity of fruit, minerals, and tannins which highlight a wine’s complexity, emphasize the varietal profile, and at the same time try to suppress alcoholic volatility.

Compared to a stemmed glass, a stemless wine tumbler presents added challenges. Foremost, the size and volume of the bowl, require a size reduction in order to produce a glass that is comfortable and user-friendly in the hand.

This necessitates the redesign of each Grape Varietal Shape, beginning with new hand-made prototypes and new molds — each fine-tuning the glass shape, size, and rim diameter — to allow researchers to determine to what degree the glass volume could be reduced, whilst maintaining the delicate and important characteristics of each wine.

Georg Riedel is rightly excited by the new look of this thin-blown glass and invites you to experience how well it sits in the hand, with a unique curvature that invites the glass to nestle perfectly between thumb and fingers.

So, pour some good wine and enjoy the new SL RIEDEL Stemless Wings collection.

Project: SL RIEDEL Stemless Wings Wine Tumblers
Designers: Georg Riedel, Riedel Tiroler Glashütte GmbH
Manufacturer: Riedel Tiroler Glashütte GmbH