Just received my first Zalto Burgundy glass in the mail (ordered from amazon but fulfilled by a different vendor) and I couldn’t help but notice how much thicker the rim is than my Zalto Bordeaux? I’ve never held a Zalto Burgundy glass before today so I have no frame of reference. Is this normal?
by Better-Subject1945
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The Zalto burgundy i used made me afraid of cutting my tongue. They were also unbelievably light.
I have handled many Zaltos, Sophienwald, and Glasvin glassware through my career, and they can all vary significantly in stem thickness, foot thickness/shape, and bowl/rim thickness. I think that many of these handblown glassware manufacturers need to tighten their QA, and not use the excuse that this wide variation is an acceptable part of being handcrafted. I always recommend people try to buy handblown glassware in person, so you see what you’re getting.
They vary a bit since they are individually handmade. I have 4 of the Josephine glasses and they’re all several grams heavier or lighter than one another. But I can’t really tell when holding
I have 8 of the zalto champagne glasses – if I recall correctly, once, I weighed all 8. There was like a 30 or 40% variance in weight between them.
Just so that we are absolutely clear, it does say Zalto on the base of the glass? Spiegelau makes a copy that isn’t as paperthin as the Zalto. If so, it’s just the variation between glasses. Mine are also paperthin at the rim.