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I don\u2019t know about you, but I hate washing up after a dinner party<\/a>. The thing that gets to me the most is having to hand-wash the wine glasses, two per guest (because my friends are that<\/em> annoying). And I particularly dislike drying them after. So, imagine my joy when I was shown a wine glass you can thoughtlessly throw into the dishwasher. It’s not a graceless glob, either. It’s a perfectly dainty glass\u2014with bones of steel.<\/p>\n To know Jancis Robinson<\/a>, wine expert and author of the<\/em> book on wine<\/a>, is to not just love her way with words, but to madly respect her opinion. So, when she says that the glass she\u2019s holding does all of that\u2014adding, \u201cI haven\u2019t broken one in two years, and<\/em> I\u2019m clumsy\u201d\u2014you nod vigorously (as opposed to say, grabbing it and throwing it against a wall to test the theory).<\/p>\n If this glass<\/a> did just that, it\u2019d be a lifesaver. But then Robinson adds that this is also the only glass you\u2019ll ever<\/em> need to own<\/strong>. For any kind of wine. Red, wine, sherry, port, or Champagne. Same. Glass.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Okay, wait, so does this mean we\u2019ve been lied to all along? That all those wine glasses<\/em> (I have three kinds in four sets) jostling for space in my tiny kitchen need never have made their way in at all? \u201cThere\u2019s absolutely no logic to have white wine in a smaller glass than red\u2014it can be just as complex,\u201d says Robinson. So, by the same argument, those vintage Champagne flutes I once spent rent on? Nice to own, but not entirely necessary. \u201cHaving a wide brim when you\u2019re drinking Champagne actually makes you enjoy the aromas that much more,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n Robinson would know. After 44 years of tasting wine, she got pretty tired of switching out glasses for every wine she drank. So she set about to create the perfect wine glass together with tableware designer Richard Brendon<\/a>. Their camaraderie and shared passion bore fruit: An elegant, handblown glass with the thinnest of stems (there is a stemless option, too) that\u2019s a pleasure to hold and drink from\u2014and sophisticated enough that only four glassworks in Europe have the capability of making them, according to Brendon.<\/p>\n While we had Jancis around, we decided to ask her to continue busting other myths around wine drinking, after all, she’s made it her passion to crack open an often-fusty world of wine to make it more approachable (cue her book The 24-Hour Wine Expert<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/images.food52.com\/bOjz3-ZTLOyKgE9lQaNdq2vSDB4=\/470x470\/674ece04-3e3c-489c-bfd3-636d9d64855c--2019-0715_richard-brendon_the-perfect-wine-glass_1x1_bobbi-lin_1412.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
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