We’ve made our opinions clear about how many different wine glasses you need. Hint – not a lot! Riedel is largely responsible for the proliferation of a seemingly endless variety of glasses that ‘enhance’ the drinking experience of very, very particular different wines. But the new $20 Coca-Cola glass? We’re calling bullshit. The shark as they say, has been jumped:
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“It was always a dream of mine 25 years ago when I started the wine glass campaign,” he explains. “I always told journalists that it would be my dream to create a glass for the most popular beverage in the world.”
I bet.
Shark jumped!
