The ideal single rocks glass is “somewhere between eight and ten ounces,” says Simó. Piacentini also prefers these rocks glasses to snifters for brandy, since you’re able to more easily smell the aromas. One such example is a Negroni, points out John Sergentakis - the regional sales manager for Nolet’s Gin - made with gin, sweet vermouth, and Campari. “A superexpensive coupe glass is just going to be really thin and delicate,” says Piacentini, meaning it’s more likely to break.Ī single rocks glass is “going to be for anything neat, any spirit on the rocks,” explains Piacentini, though you could also use it for stirred, chilled, spirituous cocktails served “down,” meaning they’re served chilled but in a glass without a stem. And though you can spend hundreds of dollars on a set of coupe glasses, this probably isn’t where you want to be spending the bulk of your glassware budget. The stem means you don’t heat up the cocktail with your hand as you sip it. It’s versatile, too - I can sip Champagne without fear of losing my bubbles.”Ĭoupe glasses are good for cocktails served “up,” meaning they’ve been shaken or stirred with ice and then served chilled, without ice - like a martini - or even “frozé,” as Supergay Spirits co-founder Aaron Thorp suggests. (Though if you want your glassware to be more forgiving of spills, go for a coupe that’s seven or eight ounces so the drink won’t come right up to the top edge.) Kimberly Hunter, CEO and founder of Potent Pours, appreciates the wider rim because that “means lots of garnish.
It holds about six ounces, which means you’re drinking what Piacentini calls a “civilized” amount of booze. In most modern cocktail bars, the coupe has dethroned the V-shaped martini glass as the go-to. The most-recommended cocktail glass was the coupe glass, especially for someone who likes to get creative with the drinks they make at home.
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To help you find your own perfect matches, we took a deep dive into cocktail glassware, speaking with more than a dozen professional bartenders and boozehounds about their go-to pieces of cocktail glassware. For me, when you’re drinking out of an antique crystal glass, there’s something about the drink that’s more special, and it does taste better.” The first rule of thumb, says David Fudge, co-founder of nonalcoholic-spirit brand Aplós, is picking something you would actually enjoy drinking out of, because “it’s all about elevating the whole experience. Regardless of what you make in them, the right cocktail glasses for you are a matter of taste.
“You can make 90 percent of drinks in a rocks, a collins, and a good all-purpose cocktail glass.” Joaquín Simó, partner at Pouring Ribbons and Tales of the Cocktail’s American Bartender of the Year in 2012, makes it even simpler. According to Matt Piacentini, owner of the Up & Up, a cocktail bar in the West Village, his team uses just five different types of cocktail glasses to make most of the drinks on its menu. Is there any difference between a highball and a collins glass? Are those V-shaped martini glasses actually a reasonable thing to own? What size coupe do you need? The good news is that buying cocktail glasses doesn’t have to be all that complicated - or expensive. So you’re trying to set up a nice home bar (long gone are the days of drinking wine out of mugs), but the process is feeling a bit overwhelming. They can make anything poured from your shaker or mixing glass look elegant and sophisticated.Photo-Illustration: The Strategist Photos: Retailers Outside those celebrations, most sparking drinks are now served in tall, narrow flutes to keep the bubbles alive longer.)Ĭoupes are great choices for a home bar, as they'll work well with virtually any drink served without ice: margaritas, sours, negronis, Manhattans, after-dinner cocktails like a Brandy Alexander, and even. (You'll still find sparkling beverages served in coupes at weddings, but that may be because coupes can be stacked into those photogenic, perilous pyramids. And it displays those clever garnishes oh-so-cleverly.ĭebuting in 17th century England (via Chic and Tonic), it was originally used to serve Champagne, though that's less true now: Its broad surface allows bubbles to dissipate quickly. It doesn't slosh its contents onto the floor as easily as a Martini does.
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It usually holds no more than 4 ounces, allowing a smaller serving of liquor to look like a full glass.
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