Copyright 2020 by AMEFT. With sensitivity the hot, liquid glass then comes to the pit stop. The wines were more puckery and astringent and less enjoyable. That Zalto glassware is structurally sound seems a minor miracle. But how do they differ when it comes to experiencing the wine? by Pan Media Matrix Therefore, I even gave false information when ordering the prototypes. As I swirled wine in the glass, the stem seemed to bend back and forth, delicate yet flexible and strong. Riedels business boomed globally as their glassware became the dominant name for high-end retail and hospitality. Though against conventions, the wine glass truly does make a differencethe glassware equivalent of an opera singer performing at La Scala. It became a success very quickly because it was something new.. An excellent one, even. Instead of a wine glass, for example, I wrote candlestick or distillation flask on the order slip. The keystone to completing this vision: Kurt Josef Zalto, possibly the most gifted glass designer of our time. Few people could have predicted the explosion of super-expensive, wine-specific glassware that has emerged over the past few decades. In early 2021 Grassl rolled out its Voyage and Voyage+ lines, which are travel cases for your fine glassware built to hold two or four glasses at a time. Yes, for me, filigree is the epitome of the noble character of a wine glass which stands equally for beauty and functionality. Committed to craftsmanship tradition and absolute sophistication. Like so much thin crystal stacked in your cupboard, cutting through the clutter takes a careful eye. Everyone who picks up that glass for the first time has some reaction to it, says Grant Reynolds, wine director of Charlie Bird and its sequel restaurant, Pasquale Jones. The heat of the fire, the red-hot glasses from the wooden moulds and the concentrated and precise craftsmanship of the glassblowers had a strong influence on me. Then the stem is pulled out of the goblet with pliers and a liquid glass mass is applied, from which the base plate is made rotating with special wooden pliers. The brand hails from Austria, and has positioned itself as a sort of antidote to the overly fussy world of high-end glassware by offering a standardized, eminently usable wine glass that cruises alongside any wine in the world. Launching with an incredibly fine, unusually shaped range of hand-made crystal glasses in the early 2000s, the glassware quickly developed a cult following. I learned the art of glass from my father and later refined it at the glass school in Kramsach and at the Nachtmann company in Germany., By eleven, he was drawing his own designs and in the year 2000, he released his first glass under the Zalto label. Especially with the big, heavy wines such as Bordeaux and Burgundy, we often hear from winemakers that the wine develops faster and more intense. This year, we are proud to celebrate our 37th anniversary. The Josephine is unique both in terms of design and taste experience, we hear this time and again from renowned winemakers and top sommeliers. Our Josephine No 3 is designed for complex red and white wines, that thanks to its shape have the chance to develop in a unique way. Josephinenhutte Stemware Collection | Beverage Dynamics Andr Hueston Mack & Kurt Josef Zalto (Part 1): Crafting of - YouTube Kurt Josef Zalto awarded Red Dot Award 2022 for Product Design Whereas machine-made glasses have a rounded lip, Zaltos glasses are polished down to be flat, essentially dissolving the barrier between mouth and wine and improving delivery to the tipplers palate. The Sensory Glass was designed by Roberto Conterno, proprietor of the great Barolo producer Giacomo Conterno. A fresh start and a clean slate for the acclaimed artisan. I hung on the screen for minutes, zooming in, trying to grasp the shape, following the contours and lines and just thinking: How cool would a live date be with them and a cool wine? The coveted seal of quality is only awarded to products that have an excellent design. In a Josephine glass, a delicacy that is missing from the wine tasted in Riedel, seeming to express a slightly more mineral character, and the aromatics certainly enhanced. After six generations the Zalto company is no longer in Zalto family hands. The Jancis and the Gabriel-Glas were, to me, the most aesthetically appealing in shape and feel. But Josephinenhtte, a small-production bespoke glassmaker located in the Sudetes mountain region of central Europe, does exactly that. Drawing on a glassmaking tradition that dates back to the 1840s, the brand was revitalized in 2019 with a design assist by Kurt Josef Zalto, who left his familys Zalto Glass Company in a hail of intrigue and considers Josephinenhtte the second act of his lifes work. In this way, the Gabriel-Glas One For All is a great option for someone looking to get into high-end glassware, with universal application across a broad range of wine styles. Its here hes developing his masterpiece. In addition, every month 5 lucky subscribers have a chance to win a set of 2 glasses of their choice. If you ask me that kind of a question now, I would say that the Josephinenhtte collection is my perfect work. Award-winning design (Red Dot Award, Iconic Award, House Beautiful Award, GQ Home Award). From Josephine, the character is noticeably more vibrant and crisper. Want to enjoy a crisp white? Design wine glass by Josephinenhtte: Form with function. And masterpiece it most certainly is. We recently attended an informative seminar led by sommelier Andr Mack and 6th generation glass designer Kurt Josef Zalto to present Kurt's own lineup of stemware called Josephinenhtte. Any glass that does not meet the highest precision requirements and the defined feather-light weight is remelted and recycled. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. These things are obviously measured in small increments, but for me they are such a pleasure to use, and offer something different to everything else in my glass cupboard. From the finishing of the rim to how thin and light the glasses are, and even where the glass which is one piece from the rim to the bottom of the stem connects to the base. See our ethics policy. Principal among these was Zalto. Afterwards the glass goes back into a slightly heated oven so that it can cool down very slowly. I thought it was interesting he was congratulating us on the new glass but then I realized, he hadnt given us credit.. That was the first light and thin-walled series that ever came onto the market. The kink, though divisive on public forums, makes a lot of sense, according to Billy Wagner, a sommelier at Berlins Michelin-starred Nobelhart & Schmutzig. Doesnt that worry you, given the current developments surrounding the rapidly rising costs of energy? How do you work today? For all those who did not want to worry about the choice of glasses, we recommend our universal glass, from which you can even drink beer. We had some quick successes with private customers, but winemakers and restaurateurs didnt want to know about a new glass. And that is exactly our claim: We put a lot of heart and soul into every single glass, so that every touch becomes an extraordinary, sensory experience., MycoTechnology to take its mushroom mycelia platform onto the global stage, Alpenhain launches Baked Hirtenkse as a summer edition, During a trade mission to Mali, Macfrut, the international trade fair for the fruit and vegetable sector, was presented in the capital city of Bamako to roughly 80 Malian professionals, associations and the local media, proving that this event held at the Rimini Expo Centre is attracting a great deal of interest. What resulted was a series of precision-engineered wine glasses, applying Father Denks comprehension of wines to Zaltos glassmaking capabilities and marrying pure form with superlative function. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. Even as a 4-year-old boy I often visited my fathers glassworks. Then follows the melting process, in which the furnace and the glass mixture are heated and cooled to ensure that there are no bubbles or impurities. Required fields are marked *. Just wow my first thought when I stumbled upon the new collection Josephine. A glass that is as logical as if nature had created it. Our Zalto glass family tradition goes back well into the 18th century to Veneto, Italy. Kurt Josef Zalto, sixth generation glass designer, has released his own independent portfolio of glassware for wine Josephinenhtte. Thanks Ray. In 1770, my ancestors came to Austria to the Waldviertel region as glassmakers in order to replace the glass production with potash, which was forbidden by Joseph II, with more modern techniques. People who love wine and are willing to invest in top-end glasses have a lot of options. I found in the Zalto, the Josephine and the Conterno slightly more precision, clarity and intensity to the wines. I am currently working in detail with beer and whisky, both of which are interesting elixirs. You have to be able to see how the wine moves in the glass. Riedels high-end crystal glasses were of exceptional quality, but the company made a selling point of painstakingly creating specialized glasses. After the Iconic Award: Innovative Interior,Josephinenhttehas now received its second award this year for its hand-blown glass collection Josephine: the Red Dot Design Award. Founder Stephanie Hall has hit upon a truly remarkable expression of modern glassware, and the world is taking notice, thanks to a New York Times deep-dive earlier this year and spotlights from Harpers Bazaar, Vogue, and Beyonc. The Austrian glass designer had already set global standards with the invention of a glass, and around 20 years later he breathes new life into the Josephinenhtte brand, known for the extravagant glass art of the 19th century, starting in 2018. Meinen Namen, meine E-Mail-Adresse und meine Website in diesem Browser, fr die nchste Kommentierung, speichern. Zaltos distinctive glassware captivated sommeliers and wine lovers, but as Kurt Josef Zalto told Forbes magazine in 2020, in order to be able to grow faster I made the compromise of accepting foreign investors into my company. That investment, however, turned sour. The Josephinenhtte Champagne glass appears to offer the best of both worlds, hybridizing the structure of a flute with the bowl of a white wine glass. Gabriel-Glas is the invention of Swiss-German wine critic Ren Gabriel. How would you assess the response to it from the professional community? Aesthetically, I love the shape and they are a delight to hold with feather-light weight and perfect balance. Josephinenhtte by Kurt Josef Zalto A wider bowl is your friend, so you can really get your nose in there and appreciate the pinot funk. His designs quickly became industry standard and Zalto, the moniker for quality. If you taste the same wine from five different glasses, it will taste different from each glass. Thats how things went on and on. Because it is clear that form also has a function. Our designer Kurt Josef Zalto met with the well-known US sommelier Andr Hueston Mack at his wine bar '& Sons Ham Bar' in Brooklyn to talk about the crafting. Once again, the Josephine just a touch more elegance; the Zalto a touch more grip. Under this brand, Zalto has been quietly working in an ecologically-sustainable glassware hut in the Waldviertel region of Austria. From the Josephine more subtlety and more elegance, the meatiness toned down, fruit prettier and a little brighter. More complex in the Josephine, slightly silkier on the palate too. I decided to taste from a Riedel Ouverture Magnum glass against the Josephine. I found the winemakers to be very sociable and, above all, fun to hang out with right from the start. But these are classy workhorse glasses, capable of everyday use and as ideal for Monday night drinks over takeout as they are for a nice dinner party. I saw Zaltos in wine-loving restaurants as august as Le Bernardin in New York and as modest as Cave Ox, a wine bar in the Sicilian town of Solicchiata near Mount Etna. Did you interact with other glass designers during this process? You joined the family business at an early age, though. Each was superior to the Riedel Vinum, the far cheaper and less exalted glass Ive used at home for years. So while the stemware can deliver the finest possible expression of a wine, Schindler says, it can just as easily show a wines faults. Zaltos product, then, is more than a mere vehicle for consumption. The glasses are now available via the online store josephinen.com/de . But I had decided that I wanted to do something artistic, and I could also have gone in the direction of interior design. He was pushed out of the company that bears his name. (This is why I generally dont care for stemless glasses.). Most important, the aromas and flavors of the wine presented themselves with clarity and intensity. Beside the fact that I was drinking an exceptional good valued Lugana from 2020 by Ca dei Frati I was drinking it out of my new Josephine No. A handmade, very thin and very delicate glass rounds off the wine experience. [The glasses] disappear into the background and let you taste the wine unadulterated by the heft or body of the vessel, says Zalto brand ambassador and award-winning sommelier Aldo Sohm. The next day the finishing of the glass begins. Zaltos feel so delicate that you feel at one with the wine, Jancis Robinson once said. Kurt Zalto's new line of whisper-thin glasses. The Austrian glass designer Kurt Josef Zalto is the mastermind behind these stunning wine collectors items which just won the Red Dot Design Award for product design. Ill be honest and say that I didnt really take time to observe or think about this; I think I was too intent on getting on to the aroma, but probably a ly should have made a note: I will have to crack open another bottle , I do not find the glasses visually attractive but am keen to try one. Hes the Austrian glassware prodigy responsible for inventing Zaltos lithe, singular signature glasseslimited-production, hand-blown glasses coveted by a globe of sommeliers. The Josephine follows a fundamentally new concept. I then lined-up the Roederer Collection 242 Brut, a wine that included 44% of reserve wines, some fermented in oak, with 8g/l dosage. But I do love great glasses. Along the way Grassl has become a trendy totem of Winestagram, showing up in tasting rooms, classy wine bars, and haute restaurants around the world. As you might expect, theyre rather expensive, with single glasses starting at $68. The glassmaker Franz Pohl, head of Josephinenhtte, was a gifted creator and artistic pioneer who went beyond the boundaries of what was thought possible in glassmaking at the time. These five high-end glasses are intended for all wines.CreditTony Cenicola/The New York Times. The Josephine glass seemed to express this wine more elegantly. Glass production is very energy-intensive. Under the name Josephinenhtte, Kurt Zalto has released four glasses. High-end restaurants began purchasing sets to use for VIP clientele, and by 2012, San Franciscos Saison purchased the complete Zalto line for use throughout the restaurant. But in the last few years several other high-end glasses have been challenging Zaltos supremacy, which brought me to these five lead-free crystal universal glasses, each precisely designed (and marketed) to be the only glass anybody would need to drink every sort of wine. Well, for generations of glass designers, Bordeaux and Burgundy were considered incompatible in terms of the ideal glass. One of the most important people in the wine business at that time was the winemaker and priest Hans Denk, to whom we donated Christmas tree baubles each Christmas that were then painted by the children in his parish. Glasses which open up a new dimension in taste through their visionary construction. There are now restaurants that have extra-large wine glasses so that the waiter can pour in two decilitres at a time. We have plans for the construction of regional photovoltaic power plants. Currently, the collection includes four different types of wine glasses, as well as water glasses in various colors. A stem thats tall with a relatively narrow bowl will help keep your riesling or chardonnay cool and concentrate the delicate aromas. (Drinkers in the United States can order directly from Grassls exclusive U.S. distributor, CJF Selections.). For people like this, wine glasses must be esthetically pleasing but above all functional, enhancing the perception of wines that can often be subtle, nuanced and, in the case of older vintages, fragile and fleeting. Sommeliers claim that a Zalto enhances the nose and flavor of a wine in a manner unlike any other glassware in the world. That in itself is nothing new. Behind this new design wine glass series hides Kurt Josef Zalto. We welcomed up to 30,000 visitors a year, who also bought our products, of course. Though cheaper machine-made versions have joined the line-up, their premium, mouth-blown crystal ranges now sell for up to 100 per glass. It was designed by Kurt Josef Zalto that Zalto who left his eponymous company some time ago. No other glass shows the strengths, but also the weaknesses of a wine so clearly." A panel of experts tested universal glasses with six different wines. For six generations, the Zalto family has worked as the leading artisanal glassmakers in Lower Austrias Neunagelberg, a major wine region. It does this by offering a wide bowl (for ample aromafication), a thin glass (a classy touch), and a long, graceful stem (so your grubby paws dont warm the wine). The five glasses Ive been testing since November include the Zalto Universal and four competitors: the Gabriel-Glas Gold Edition; the Wine Glass, from the partnership of Jancis Robinson, the renowned British wine writer, and the designer Richard Brendon; the Sensory Glass, designed by Roberto Conterno of the great Barolo producer Giacomo Conterno, in conjunction with Zwiesel Kristallglas, a German manufacturer; and the Josephine Universal from Josephinenhtte, which has perhaps the most interesting back story. The finely honed craftsmanship behind a Zalto is near impossible to ignore and it goes a long way toward fostering conditions conducive to best tasting a wine. The palate in Veritas is lovely, a shimmering lemon jelly freshness over the truffle character. For decades I have been working on the perfect glass. I am impressed that at each turn these newly released glasses conveyed as much or more, than some established candidates. Josephinenhutte receives the 2022 Red Dot Design Award for its handmade mouth-blown Josephine glass collection. I have found the response to have been overwhelming. In recent decades, glass production here has been strongly linked to tourism. I was pushed out and they kept the Zalto name.. It is more a matter of angles and diameters, the decanting effect in the goblet, the flow rate of the wine in the glass, and several other factors. VINUM Magazin June 2022, text by Thomas Vaterlaus. What resulted was a series of precision-engineered wine glasses, applying Father Denk's comprehension of wines to Zalto's glassmaking capabilities and marrying pure form with superlative function. In the Veritas the wine is extremely creamy and biscuity on the nose. Among the high points was drinking Champagne from the Josephine, in which a pretty fountain of tiny bubbles rose directly up to the surface from the point where stem and bowl meet. We are in a strong position. The Zalto was tall like a Bordeaux glass but rather than gently curving and arcing upward, it angled up abruptly and inward in rather a straight line. He has set high standards with his innovation, and his work is full of creativity, dedication and passion. Under the Josephinenhtte studio, Zalto has released four wine glasses: a Champagne glass, with a gently sloping angle and a slender bowl. Behind this new design wine glass series hides Kurt Josef Zalto. In fact, I found each to be as durable as they were delicate. Nevertheless, it was half a working lifetime until you stirred up the wine scene with your design of the Zalto Denk'Art We manufactured the classic assortment of a glass-works. And that is not only due to the extraordinary design, but above all to the function of the glass. A glass that unleashes the aromas of wine better than any other. I simply wanted them in my hands because they felt so good. But Ive been pouring wine into five of the best wine glasses money can buy. Holding the glass by the stem helps avoid finger smudges and prevents the wine from being warmed by the heat of the hand. Over most of the last decade the top glass among wine lovers was the Zalto DenkArt Universal, which, when I first encountered it in 2011, seemed fundamentally different and radically better than the other leading glasses. By subscribing, you agree to our privacy policy. Glas art: Josephinenhtte by Kurt Josef Zalto, Teil 1: Ferienhuser, aus denen man nicht mehr ausziehen mchte, Schner weinschenken mit diesen Wein-Accessoires, Riesling RocknRoll: Weinkaufsliste mit Silkes Weinkeller, Aberfeldy 12 Gold Bar Limited Edition: Goldstck fr Goldstcke, Hotel Plattenhof, Tramin: Eingecheckt im Weinberg-Paradies. I was an only child and can remember sitting at the table with my father on those long winter evenings, drawing. Each turns holding and swirling a goblet into a rare and sensual pleasure. What Is It That Makes Some Speakers So Expensive? When I think of a perfect wine glass, I always see a feather in front of me. So my passion for glass was practically born in my cradle. I would normally expect it to be a little tauter that the Prelude. The Perfect Glass was a collaboration between Jancis Robinson, the British wine authority, and Richard Brendon, a designer. News Archives - Circle of Wine Writers Our vision is for Brand-Nagelberg to once again become a place for high-quality industrial hand-blown glass production. Every product is carefully selected by our editors. Kurt created the glass with the characteristic bend so that the aromas of the wine can develop optimally. I really liked the sentence of a well-known sommelier recently: The Josephine is so delicate that it shows a wine completely naked. This also coincides with the opinion of many winegrowers. The glasses are sort of hard to purchase, which adds to the mystique: In lieu of a traditional webstore, one selects a product online and submits a request, after which the company puts you in touch with a distributor in your region. I live alone, in a reduced environment, a few beautiful things are quite enough for me. Glasses which bring vibrancy to their contents and to those who drink out of them. There was the classic red wine glass, or rather the Bordeaux glass and the very bulbous Burgundy glass. Get regular updates from NYT Cooking, with recipe suggestions, cooking tips and shopping advice. Gabriel-Glas One For All is not cheap the entry level StandArt starts at $63 for a two-glass set, and the Gold Edition gift box is $148 for two. Most wine drinkers, admittedly, will neither want nor need such rarefied glasses. Each was great with Champagnes, surprisingly even the wide Conterno Sensory. The glass tradition of our family goes back to the 18th century to Veneto, Italy. Then, of course, the role of the glass is reduced to the function of a mere container. And the wine tastes different. He bade farewell to this project in 2009, only to make a new splash with the Josephinenhtte by Kurt Josef Zalto collection in 2019. And why is there so much drama this year? If the wine is garbage, she will show you that too..
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