Gilded Age Guide for Wine Glasses

Above would be a glass for sherry — “A red glass is suitable for white wines; green for various kinds of Rhine wine, while white of small size signifies sherry.”

 

Glasses for wines should indicate, by shape or color, the kind for which they are intended. Thus, a red glass is suitable for white wines; green for various kinds of Rhine wine, while white of small size signifies sherry. Claret glasses are larger than port glasses, while those for champagne are thin in the stem and of wide brim.


Beautiful little baskets are now in fashion as liqueur stands. Each contains four bottles, while around the edges of the basket are 12 little hooks from which depend small square shaped glasses. Usually bottles and stoppers are of different colors, while the little glasses correspond by having handles unlike the body of the glass.


Brandy and bitters are served in fashionable quarters upon a little tray of exquisite Bohemian glass. The set consists of large and small bottles, sugar bowl, and two or three tumblers. — New York Times, October 1882

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