Large wine glass
The generous bowl gives a spritz enough space for ice, fruit and sparkling mixer without crowding.
- Capacity
- 400–600 ml13½–20¼ oz
- Typical pour
- 150 ml5 oz
- How it’s served
- A long drink, over a full glass of ice
- In this collection
- 14 cocktails
Why this shape
Volume, mostly. A spritz is ice, wine, bitter liqueur, soda and a slice of fruit, and it needs somewhere to put all of that without becoming a construction problem. The inward curve at the rim also holds aromatics over the surface rather than letting them leave.
Getting it cold
Ice does it. A stemmed glass stays cold on its own because you hold the stem — that is what the stem is for.
The usual mistake
Reaching for a small wine glass. A spritz in a 250ml glass is a spritz with no room for ice, which means a spritz that is warm in four minutes.
No large wine glass? Use this instead
Use a stemless wine glass or roomy tumbler.
Cocktails served in it
14 in all, pouring between 113–180 ml3¾–6 oz.
