| Mikasa Arctic Lights Brandy | 
 enlarge | Brand: Mikasa
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $30.00
Buy New: $25.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 71387
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8 x 3 x 3
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MPN: XY701-018
Model: XY701018
UPC: 495285200090
EAN: 0020911224388
ASIN: B0000B3110
Availability: Usually ships in 1-3 weeks
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| Features:
| • | Classic snifter shape | | • | hand cut and hand polished European lead crystal | | • | Hand wash recommended | | • | 14.75 oz capacity |
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Product Description
Think of the brilliance of sunlight refracted from icicles, the sparkle of a clear moonlit night after snow has blanketed the fields and woods. Now picture that beauty translated into crystal, cut dramatically to catch the light. Can't you just see firelight and brandy bringing touching this glass with warmth?
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| Customer Reviews:
ugly and useless January 2, 2008
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a weird and effortful piece of glassware. If you'd like to do better, try this: assemble some tumblers of various heights, a brandy snifter, a dish-shaped champagne glass (called a coupe), a champagne flute, and a traditional stemmed wine glass. Measure identical amounts of wine, three ounces for example, and pour into each glass. Wait a minute or two and then sniff the bouquet from each glass. Does it seem more pronounced from any particular one?
If one of the glasses seems to nurture a more profound bouquet, wait a few minutes and repeat the experiment. This time, sniff the most productive glass after you have tried all the others. If it still promotes the bouquet more than the others, you can be sure that the shape is the difference. This experiment is one of several inNew Short Course in Wine,The
Now take a taste from each of the glasses. Was there a clear-cut winner? If there was, why wouldn't you use that glass for all the cold beverages that you drink? If you're a relentlessly scientific type, you might try this experiment with both a cheap wine and a more expensive one. You could continue on, sampling reds and whites, sweet wines and dry.
The results of my experiments with glasses suggest that champage coupes and brandy snifters are a waste of time. Both probably fair for the same reason, they're too big to contain the aroma of a drink.
Reach instead for the now common champagne flute and the smaller, tulip shaped spirits glass.
Lynn Hoffman, author of New Short Course in Wine,The
and the perfectly shaped bang BANG: A Novel
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