After years of back and forth with a small army of marketing and public-relations people, I finally got what I'd been looking for: a chance to sit down with Maximilian Riedel and debunk the "theory" ...

Like many wine drinkers, we don’t give a lot of thought to what glass we pour our wine into as long as we never see the bottom. That;s wrong, says Maximilian Riedel, 11th-generation glassmaker and CEO ...

Taking charge of a family company is typically an honor, although it’s an honor replete with challenges. When you’re the 11th-generation family CEO, steering a ship that was launched in 1756, consider ...

I like to think of glassware as the translator between myself and a spirit. The glass isn’t just a necessary vessel; it’s an active player in conveying a liquor’s character. Differently shaped glasses ...

Maximilian Riedel has a mission: to rid the world of champagne flutes. “My goal is to make them obsolete within my lifetime,” says the 11th-generation glassmaker from Austria. “Champagne and sparkling ...

Ask Maximilian Riedel who started the trend of ditching flutes in favor of wider-bowled glasses for sipping Champagne and he’ll tell you, “I did.” With his first Champagne wineglass, launched in 2014, ...

For years I looked at high-end wine glasses with funny shapes, milk- jug holding capacities and astronomical prices as one more geegaw for wine lovers who, as my mother would say, have more money than ...

When Maximilian Riedel took over the American branch of his family's company, he made a few changes. After about eight months of running the show at the Long Island, N.Y.-based facility, Riedel got ...

Accoutrements are important to Maximilian Riedel, who comes from 11 generations of Bohemian and Austrian glassmakers known most widely in modern times for wine glasses. He dresses in bespoke suits and ...

Maximilian Riedel left his native Austria in his early 20s and spent more than a decade working for the family glassware business in the U.S. So when he wanted to reconnect with his roots after being ...

Among the many oenophiles visiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's new "How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now" exhibition was Riedel USA chief executive Maximilian J. Riedel. The ...

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