This season's wine related gift I'm most happy with is some Burgundy stems from Schott Zweisel. These are the Tritan series, where they use titantium instead of lead, and are break-resistant. I already had the Bdx, Chardonnay, and rose/Riesling stems, now I have the Burgs, too.So I can put my Burg stems in dishwasher! If anyone is interested, Betsy got at Crate and Barrel, they are advertized as the Loire line, but they are SZ Forte line (has the SZ stamp). A bit cheaper than most places offer the SZ.
I'll also know that on another forum there were a series of posts re the Zalto Denk'Art Champagne stems. Emily (winemonger.com) who posts here occasionally, is the West Coast distributor. These aren't cheap stems, but the Champagne glass is fabulous (I posted here in May on the Zalto stems). I actually liked the whole line, except the Burgundy which I found ungainly. A couple of eBob posters did tests against a lot of high end stems, the Zaltos gained a lot of fans. These are very expensive stems, about same as Riedel Sommeliers, but very nice if anyone wants to splurge on a gift for a significant someone (too late for Christmas, but ...).