lead-free riedel glasses

I feel that it's a tempest in a wineglass.

Now if it were _plutonium_ glass, I might be a little worried...

Tom S

Yes, Riedel glasses are dangerous, please send them to me a.s.a.p. so I can dispose of them safely :-)

Seriously, it seems that lead may transfer when you keep drinks stored for longer periods of time in a crystal bottle (like liquors, brandy etc) but you should not worry about drinking from crystal glasses.

Anyway, crystal can not be made without lead and I could not imagine Riedel selling much overpriced ordinary glass (though it should not make much difference for the drinking experience).

Regards, Serge

I'll help with that as well...;-)

This is true. You should not store anything you'll ever consider drinking in lead crystal, as the lead will transfer. However, if you keep your wine in your glass long enough for this to happen, you won't have wine anymore, but something vile a lot closer to vinegar.

But yes, there is a remote possibility that some lead, allthough not enough to actually measure, will transfer to your wine anyhow, but this will be such small amounts that you'll do better to worry about alcohol related deseases. You'll probably need a liver transplant long before the lead becomes a problem.

Ah... Well, it happens that they do. Sell ordinary glass, I mean. They have to collections called "Wine" and "Overture" that are made from glass, and sold at "competitive" prices... Go check their home page! And whichever you choose; do yourself the favour of tasting the same wine in different glasses. It makes SUCH a difference!

C:

This subject of lead in crystal wine glasses has resulted in several long threads in this group over the last few years. You can go to Google and probably find many of these threads.

Some very high quality wine glasses have not used lead and are far from ordinary. Much of the Bohemian glass of the 1800s did not use lead. Price some of the better glasses from this period. Moser used many glass compositions including the traditional Bohemian one without lead, lead glass, and rare earth containing glasses. You can easily pay many hundred US dollars, and sometimes over 1000, for some better examples of Moser that do not contain lead.

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Salut/Hi radishpicker,

le/on 14 Sep 2004 21:13:35 -0700, tu disais/you said:-

Yup. But as so often, I think you'll find the warning was more a "back-covering" exercise than anything else. They're afraid of "neglicence" claims. You'd need to leave wine a heck of a long time in the glasses before sufficient lead were leached out to be measurable. Now lead-free gas is quite a different matter.

Don't be.

On a scale of

about 10 - noticed without interest.

My cousin Arfy recently purchased some 1% lead glasses he thought were Riedel and a local (name censored for fear of libel)-MART for $1.57 each and was so happy he invited me over to as he put it "road test" them. Since his tastes run more to beer and tequila neat, no chaser, he bought a couple of bottles of a $2 Chuck wannabees to be quaffed in his new glasses and an irregular set of glassware picked up at the East Boonesville Wine Fest and BBQ in Arkansas. Arfy and his wife Blanche go every year and never make it past the Merrywine booth. A special cuvee of scuppernong and rutabaga is their fav. Well I don't know if it was the road kill (a particularly fragrant possum) he put in the turkey fryer or the wine or the glasses, but we all came down with a case of the "trots". Once we were released from the hospital, we checked the boxes the wine glasses were taken from and saw that the name was Spiedel not Riedel and the country of origin was Russia, Chernobyl(sp) to be exact. I don't know what lead does to you without the radiation but drinking out of these Spiedels was like taking a triple barium enema, as Dick Cheney says, "big time".

E. Lavelle Merdekicka as told to

You can certainly get uranium glass

now that is a way to warm your wine.

And also locate the glass, should the lights fail! Hunt