Gassware set

The glass service is a 19th century invention, very much in keeping with its image. Previously, glasses were not on the table and were brought on demand by the servants, the same glass being able to serve several guests. Around 1830, it was the beginning of the great era of glassmakers around Paris and in the East of France, we designed, for the rising bourgeois clientele, a glass of particular size and shape for each beverage, providing a tremendous creative impulse comes from the factories. Thus appear glasses for port, champagne, liqueurs, absinthe, and finally, although a little off topic in the cocktail theme, but we cannot ignore them, these beautiful glasses specially adapted for wines white or red, from Burgundy, Alsace or Bordeaux...

Recently, the habits of consumption of aperitifs or drinks of Anglo-Saxon origin such as whiskey or gin, have imposed different shapes of glasses, tall cups or wide cups, allowing better tasting of these elongated beverages of water or ice cubes. Thus, such an illustrious crystal maker will not hesitate to specially create particularly large crystal goblets to make the ice cubes clink as best as possible and seduce other continents.