Glassware vendors at the New York Tabletop Market will expand their offerings of wine and champagne specific glassware, as consumers look to build their home bar. Carafe sets will also be a focus at the spring market as they are ideal for gift giving.
LENOX
Lenox is expanding its Tuscany collection. The Classics Contour glass, offered in a set of six, features curves that are designed to aid in the appreciation of big reds and red wine blends, and also with crisp whites and sparkling wines.
A Classics coupe champagne and cocktail glass, also offered in sets of six, allows champagne enthusiasts to take in the bubbly’s aroma more than a flute shape.
It can also be utilized when drinking a Brandy Alexander, a Manhattan or a Martini.
LIFETIME BRANDS
Lifetime Brands is expanding its Mikasa Electric Boulevard and Lux Gold glassware collection. Electric Boulevard features a contemporary silhouette highlighted by metallic gold lines. Stemware and drinkware includes sets of four goblets, flutes, stemless wine glasses or highballs for a suggested retail price of $39.99. Two three-piece carafe sets are also available for a suggested retail price of $59.99. The sets include a carafe with two stemless wine glasses or a carafe with two wine goblets.
The Mikasa Lux Gold collection is a transitional line of stemware and barware with two frosted bands accented by one gold band. Lux is sold in sets of four and is available in a goblet, flute, stemless wine, and highball for a suggested retail price of $39.99 per set. Two three-piece carafe sets are also available for a suggested retail price of $59.99. The carafe sets include two stemless wine glasses or a carafe with two wine goblets.
LUIGI BORMIOLI
Luigi Bormioli is expanding its Lock Eat collection, jars that feature removable glass lids so they can be used for preserving, canning and storing as well as serving right from the container. This year, the company is introducing three new extra large food jars and two handy jars. The company is also debuting its Mixology collection, created in collaboration with Yuri Gelmini, head barman of the Surfer’s Den in Milan.
NAMBÉ
Nambé will be expanding its Vie line, which encompasses a barware assortment that includes double old fashioned glasses, highball glasses, a metal and wood wine rack, a glass decanter with wood stopper, a cocktail shaker, a corkscrew and an Alloy champagne bucket. The new Vie double old fashioneds and highballs both are sold as a set of four for $50 each.
RIEDEL
Riedel’s Fatto a Mano is a new stemware collection that bears the typical attributes of a Riedel design: varietal specific, thin blown, unadorned, and standing tall on slender stems, but it is assembled differently, according to the company. Fatto a Mano combines the sophistication of handmade glass, in the style of the ancient Venetian tradition, with 21st century glass making technology, using fully automated machine blown techniques. The execution of this new process was made possible by the significant quality improvements in the Riedel glass factory in Weiden, Bavaria.
Six shapes are available in the new stemware collection: Cabernet, Old World Pinot Noir, New World Shiraz, Oaked Chardonnay, Riesling and Champagne wine glass. The available colors for the stems of the glasses are white, black, yellow, red, green or blue.
Also bringing a rainbow palette to market is Riedel’s Amadeo Double Magnum Rainbow decanter, a limited edition decanter which will benefit the Elton John Aids Foundation.
VISTA ALEGRE
Vista Alegre will showcase new designs in tableware as well as home décor. For example, the company will debut two new water decanter sets: Bimini and Frosty. Bimini is named after the paradise island in the Bahamas where, legend has it, the fountain of youth originated. In addition, Frosty takes design inspiration from the freshness and lightness of water preserved in a glacier.
