Riedel O For Two Tasting Set One of the hottest new designs in the wine world, the O series from renowned Austrian glassmaker Riedel includes this O For Two tasting set, a beautiful gift for a new couple, anniversary, or favorite oenophile. The set contains two stemless O glasses that each stands 4-1/8 inches high and holds 13-1/4 ounces at full capacity, along with a 6-1/4-inch, 15-3/4-ounce decanter. Known as the Mini-Cabernet, the diamond-shape decanter is taken from Riedel’s Vinum Extreme collection, a modern match for the O tumblers.

Riedel’s O tumblers neatly sidestep the annoying issue of stem breakage and fit handily into a picnic basket. They also stack compactly on a shelf when the bottom glass is turned upside-down and a second placed upright on top. Machine-made of lead-free glass, the tumblers and decanter slip right into the dishwasher for easy clean-up, although washing by hand is recommended. –Ann Bieri
Customer Review: A wonderful glass for sake drinking
I learned about this product from John Gauntner’s Sake newsletter. This ia a wonderful set of glasses for nihonshu. This glass was designed to bring out the gentle nuances of sake and has achieved that goal. The glass can hold a significant amount of sake which I prefer to more traditional small o-choko and its size makes swirling easier. The glasses are stemless which allows for easier cleanup in a dishwasher and keeps with Japanese aesthetics. This glass has become my favorite glass for sake tasting and for general purpose sake consumption.

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Elliott Yamin Elliott Yamin’s debut is so agreeable and well-executed it may well convert hardened R&B experts–the kind who’d normally distance themselves from a disc with a TV pedigree. With sincerity and a voice that vaults itself to places no talent-show contestant should be able to go, Yamin bares his soul here in a way that would do his hero, Donny Hathaway, proud. Tracks like “Take My Breath Away” and “You Are the One” find him twisting a wrench around love-stained lyrics; “I’m the Man” and “Find A Way” flow with hat-in-hand grace (and, in the case of the latter, a scat worthy of a vintage jazz stage); and opener “Movin’ On” immortalizes the season five judges’-table words of Paula Abdul: Ellliott Yamin is “one funky white boy.” As he proves with this five-star album, he is also among the most gifted artists ever to a turn a stint on the show into a recording career. –Tammy La Gorce
Customer Review: Magnificent
This CD is one of the best I’ve bought in a long time. I’ve listened to nothing else in the 2 days I’ve had it. Elliott’s voice is beautiful and all the songs are good.

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