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davidh · 01-27-2006, 10:38 PM

Wine drinkers do you prefer to drink wine from a real wine glass or a plastic wine glass?

C Johnson · 01-27-2006, 10:50 PM

Given some of the places I go, I have to vote plastic.

Uberlanders · 01-27-2006, 10:55 PM

I hate the taste when in plastic...but I'm with Chris, sometimes you just have to go with plastic especially when you are running away from Campcollector's towering infernos.

**Janet H** · 01-27-2006, 10:57 PM

Well... I prefer glass - but stemware is just too delicate. So.. it's plastic for me or even better a picardie glass (bistro style) tumbler - about 10 oz.

But heck - I'm not really picky - and the wine doesn't care whether it's in leaded glass or a lime green Kmart sippy cup....

codybear · 01-27-2006, 11:12 PM

My husband and I take wine in our trailer whereve we go (CA has a lot of choices!) and I've brought wine glasses w/us on our trips..but we keep breaking them!!..so it's glasses made out of heavy duty plastic that actually hold up..we bought these from a marine supply place..I'm not that much of a wine drinker, so it doesn't matter to me which I use..

SilverRanger · 01-28-2006, 02:04 AM

We prefer glass, but it didn't take us long to realize these were more practical:

http://tinyurl.com/an321

The stem unscrews and snaps inside the top.

Happycampers · 01-28-2006, 04:19 AM

Well we have wine glasses.. with stems.. have not broken any yet.. a fellow camper gave me a great idea to protect glassware.. buy some cheap socks and put socks on all your glassware when travelling.. Annie

overlander63 · 01-28-2006, 04:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Happycampers

Well we have wine glasses.. with stems.. have not broken any yet.. a fellow camper gave me a great idea to protect glassware.. buy some cheap socks and put socks on all your glassware when travelling.. Annie

Annie, I tried that, and now my wine tastes like old socks...Was I supposed to use new socks?

wahoonc · 01-28-2006, 04:48 AM

Gotta be glass...I have never seen plastic wine bottles before

....Ohhh you mean if you aren't drinking it out of the bottle

We use both,but I prefer glass I just choose the heavier style of wine glass and have a padded case they can be stored in.

Aaron

str8strm · 01-28-2006, 07:08 AM

We found stainless steel champagne flutes for Sunday brunch and from Campmor some metal wine glasses. The only disadvantage to the champagne flutes is the metal conducts the cold and the champagne can warm quicker than usual--so smaller quantities or drink it faster!!

Chaplain Kent · 01-28-2006, 07:22 AM

I am able to drink beer from a plastic cup and even down a shot of bourbon from the soft comfort of Styrofoam but when it comes to wine nothing but glass will do. Oh, and the same goes for coffee, only a glass mug can can impart the flavor.
Attached is a picture of the coffee mug and wine glass holder I built for Chummy. It holds four wine glasses and four coffee mugs, all in secure fashion so they will not break but in easy reach.

wheel interested · 01-28-2006, 07:56 AM

I used to use the coffee cups, carrying a minimum of dishes and no glasses whatsoever. But now we have some plastic wine glasses that are quite nice, especially after using cups.

This was a posh nosh served by a friend when we two ladies went boondocking together. Since we were roughing it we skipped the glass.

Mel · 01-28-2006, 08:13 AM

We have the stainless wine and martini glasses. Tried drinking wine out of plastic, but couldn't do it. Plus, people always comment how cool these look with our Airstream!

Mel

CanoeStream · 01-28-2006, 08:15 AM

We were at the last holiday gathering 8 nights ago. I'd brought a simple but tasty white Bordeaux that we've liked. The hosts only had plastic glasses for use with a beer keg. I held my pinky correctly and didn't blab about it, but the taste of the wine was really off! The leftovers? They were fine.

See links at the Organizing the kitchen thread for another recent discussion on this topic. I've posted about the GSI stainless steel stemware for a couple years and it is a most airstream-like product! We toss it in a kitchen drawer with hand & dish towels. They are barely marked up at all -- the rims show no tendency to bend either!

Otherwise I can go 'Italian' and skip stemware entirely. Picardie glasses, yes. Box wine, no. (Though to borrow from the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, "Box wine will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no box wine.")

basecamp · 01-28-2006, 09:43 AM

I guess when people are talking about plastic they are including Lexan? I use Lexan stemware and think they are great, can't trust myself with glass if I've had too much wine in the wilderness around a campfire. I would think metal would be the worst.

markjoandall · 01-28-2006, 10:15 AM

We drink from the lexan stems. I don't like them that much but I just haven't figured out a method of keeping crystal stems from breaking.

On another note, we eat from dishes of pure white bone china. No scratched plastic plates for us. After we hand wash and dry our dishes, they just sparkle. I love em.

Mark

maxandgeorgia · 01-28-2006, 10:45 AM

I like stems for wine less and less. As we grow older, we are shedding most remnants of formality-clothes, home, even wine glasses. Our current favorite glass for wine at home is the small round glass that was packaged with Delaney's Irish Cream over the holidays. Somehow we managed to accumulate a set-yipes! However, on campout, relaxing under Gypsy's awning looking out over a magnificent Western (or insert Northern, or Southern, or Coastal, or. . .) setting, any local wine served up in a granite-ware mug tastes like heaven

We are easy to please!

bill benton · 01-28-2006, 10:58 AM

Even if it's a jelly glass, it would have to be glass.

tin sista · 01-28-2006, 11:09 AM

Some folks think even the shape of the glass affects the flavor. I really prefer glass too, doesn't have to be a "proper" wine glass, but a glass container makes it nice.

85MH325 · 01-28-2006, 11:19 AM

Glasses? I usually just reach up to the counter top from my spot on the floor, and open the spigot on the box and let it drain down into my mouth. The carpet's a little spotted right there, but frankly after a little while of lying there, wine flowing freely, I don't care much! The best part is that the boxes never break, and the plastic bags inside that hold the wine are pretty much puncture resistant too, which is important when you try to crawl back up using the countertops and end up knocking the box to the floor. That's also when the plastic spigot is important, 'cause it doesn't allow much of the wine that's left in the box to spill either.

Roger