The Mucho Martini Review

Polycarbonate Plastic Wine Glasses

May 18, 2010

Plastic wine glasses – When it comes to glassware snobbery, the lowly plastic wine glass comes under nearly as much scrutiny as the plastic martini glasses I wrote about in an earlier posting. But why? Why shouldn’t we take advantage of plastic glassware when the function or event calls for something a bit more durable and expendable?

I’ve told the story of how I came to discover and utilize plastic glassware, as there once was a party that involved intoxicated guests destroying much of my existing glassware. It finally dawned on me soon after that those tacky plastic glassware pieces adorning the shelves at my local Wal-Mart would come in very handy for me in the future, and so it went…

Polycarbonate plastic wine glasses

I started out by researching online for some solutions to my dilemma, and soon found that there were many designs to choose from, and many were rather elegant, at least from what I could see on my screen. If you can’t find it on the internet, then it most likely doesn’t exist at all.

There are a few places online that I’ll purchase stuff like plastic glassware from without hesitation, and there are some specialty shops that I’ll always be able to discover through search engine queries. Amazon.com is my favorite place to start searching, because the pricing points usually fit into whatever budget I’ve set for the current project at hand.

When it came to locating plastic wine glasses and plastic martini glasses, then Amazon yielded desirable results, whereas Overstock.com was severely lacking. Overstock does offer a rather impressive line of glassware, just not in the plastic genre. Then, I was lucky enough to discover some more obscure sights, like Hula glassware, etc.

So, what are the relative advantages and disadvantages of owning plastic glassware? First and foremost is this; From a distance I challenge anybody to tell the difference between plastic and glass with any degree of accuracy. Just check out the video of the annoying wine connoisseur below to see what I mean.

Throughout most of the video I was convinced which of the two vessels was plastic, yet I was incorrect. Plastic designs have come a long since their creation, and glassware has benefited greatly from the progress. A clear plastic wine glass can be seen at most outdoor weddings nowadays, meaning they have become much more accepted over the years also.

Pricing is also much more reasonable when it comes to choosing plastic for your glassware needs. If you spend any time at all in physical stores like Pier 1 or the likes, then you’ll notice just how pricey a set of glassware can be. Plastic comes with no such price tag.

Durability is also a great characteristic of these pieces. If you drop a wine glass on the floor, then chances are the glass will break, and most certainly at the stem. The stem of the wine glass is obviously the most brittle part, so it would stand to reason that there would be the most give at that point. This isn’t to say that a plastic wine glass won’t break when dropped, but it’ll happen with less frequency, and since the price is right with this design they would be cheap and easily replaced when the unthinkable does happen. There won’t be any lament when there is breakage, in other words.

Functionality is also key, but there are disadvantages I suppose to owning plastic glassware. The ‘Joneses’ may judge you, but who cares?! The Jonses don’t pay your bills, set your budget or walk a mile in your shoes, so who cares what the general public thinks anyway?! If they wanna judge you for purchasing disposable plastic wine glasses, then they most likely aren’t worth fraternizing with in the first place.

Live and let live, that’s our mantra…

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