Packing wine glasses

That’s very flash :) I guess you could use bubble wrap but what’s wrong with a good plastic set of wine glasses?

I bubble wrap my fluro bulb and put it back in it's original box and have not had any dramas and they break very easy those lights

I tried taking wine glasses for a few years but finally admitted defeat and switched to good quality polycarbonate "glasses" which are about 80% as good as the real thing.

I shall watch this thread with interest :)

Mike Harding

We use the wine glasses that you see in wineries - they are a tasting glass, tulip shape.

You have to fill them up more often but a small price to pay for a glass that fits neatly in a stubby holder. Haven't lost one yet!

You can usually buy them in a box of 6 at wineries for a reasonable price.

Hi All

My Cook bought those Mariner Wine Glasses, you can purchase them
from Boat Chandler outlets, they are unbreakable, dont scratch ect,
any way the Wine doesn't stay in the Glass very long, nothing like a
good drop of Red lol.


Cheers
Daza

stubbie holder top and bottom, no worries.

Bunny,


You only need a glass if you drink out of a cask, then a vegemite glass holds enough and is cheap to replace if you smash it.

If it's bottled wine, just do what we do, drink it out of the bottle, saves breakages, saves washing up and tastes just as good, and still works.

Regards Nick

Short lengths of plastic plumbing??

Our crowd can't be trusted with anything less than stainless steel wine glasses, have the nice weighty feel of glass too.
Plastic ones become a problem when the base falls off, you end up drinking more as you can't put the glass down until it's empty.

cackles

Hi Bunny,
Like Motley, we use the tasting glasses (often used in wineries) - also use them at home ! However, we always take 2 with us, stored in a foam block. This is a rectangular shaped block of (fairly) high density foam - dimensions, longer than the length of 2 glasses, and about 4 to 5 inches square (if you can visualise that).
Then my wife slowly cut out an indentation in the shape of each glass (2 recesses - one for each glass), so that it is the shape of the glass and the glass sits below the top edge when in the foam.
Then place anywhere convenient. Good to drink from, and no problems transporting.
Good luck with whatever you end up doing.
Cheers, Mark.

We have hangers and also put stubby holders around the glasses as they hand down.

We use metal wine goblets and metal mugs for beer - no breakage and keeps beer nice and cold

We tried many types of glasses over the years as we always preferred to use normal wine glasses. We have now settled on some simple low-wide glasses (tumblers?) which we use for any cold drink .. white wine, red wine, spirits etc. We still prefer glass over plastic. Tumblers are more rugged than wine glasses (with their stems), don't tip over easily, & take up considerably less storage space. We pack them inside each other with a bit of cardboard separating them, wrap the lot in a small piece of bubble wrap, & secure the lot with a rubber band

G'day Bunny

I use winery type glasses that I buy at the local Op Shop for 50 cents each and put these into a neoprene stubby (bottle) holder. Been using the same glasses for quite a few years with no breakages. Funny part is the stubby holder is more expensive than the wine glass!! LOL

;-))

Hi all,

We have two systems we have found successful. In the trailer, and stored in a drawer, we use the protectors that come on bottles of alcohol purchased duty free at the airport. There's never any problem asking for extras as they do have a tendency to wear out with the constant use we give them!! We also keep our china tea mugs this way. Wine and tea just aint the same out of plastic!!

In the back of the car for 4x4 day trips we keep another 4 wine glasses in a small plastic tool box which we have lined with pieces of foam glued together to keep them separated and secure.

We're still using the same wine glasses after 8 years and some heavy duty driving.

We put those little Not Hot covers (like wetsuit material) on and just put them in the cupboard - then they'll already to use when we get there as well!

We have used stubby holders without any problems but with larger wine glasses we have wrapped them in the anti-slip matting you can buy at $2 shops, Spotlight,etc. Never had a breakage. When you are in the Desert the red does taste better in glass.
Cheers,
Bob

Quite a few years ago, I made a small box with some ply wood. I cut some foam to fit inside and sculpted the foam out, with a stanley knife, to make recesses to take 4 tasting glasses. I have since redesigned the inside to take a couple of small champaign flutes. So we travel with 2 wine glasses and 2 flutes, no point roughing it toooooo much eh? Wine definitely tastes better in good glasses. The box makes the glasses bullet proof. (almost)

Happy trails, Mike.

I am pleased to see quite a few punters on the forum insisting on decent glasses. You can ruin good wine by drinking it out of the wrong vessel. I've found the neoprene stubby holders with zipper sides the best way to store the standard tasting glass.

One of our pleasures when we go camping is to have a good wine with very good wine glasses. As mentioned before - it tastes different from vegimite jars or plastic. So we carry 2 Riedel type Bordeaux glasses - those big bowled ones with a long stem that can hold nearly a bottle of wine in each. (not that we do that!!)
The way we carry them is to wrap them in bubble wrap and then insert them into an insulated double wine bottle carry bag. The carry bag has stiff sides and that is placed in a neat little compartment at the back of the drawer syatem.
We have been all over the place with these glasses - Simpson Desert, Fraser Isl, Flinders Ranges, Victorian High Country, very rough tracks across Bunyip State Park (just last weekend) and have not had one break in 8 years while in the back of the wagon.

For our glassware we have foam rubber or plastic about 75mm thick and cut out a hole the size of each type of glass with a craft knife. Creates a nice tight fit and by leaving a gap between each one they dont bang together
Works for wine bottles as well.
Put nonslip mats underneath and never broken one yet.

Hi Bunny

I have for years used the same cardboard container and never broken a glass.
Take one appropriate sized, good quality, good wall thickness, cardboard box, say 25mm taller than your tallest glass.
Make dividers from thick cardboard and fold a flap at the end of the divider at 90°. Dividers to finish 5mm from the top of the box. Glue in place with liquid nails.
Put a 15 - 20mm thick piece of foam or styrene in the bottom of each compartment.
Make a heavy cardboard lid that will drop into the 5mm recess at the top
Voila!! A simple receptacle that will pack easily and protect your glasses. I am using the same boxes I made about 15 years ago, but a bit tatty by now.
If you are really anal, like me, you can make the compartments to suit individual glasses. My boxes each hold 2 x glass mugs or ceramic mugs with handles, 2 x drinking glasses and 2 x wine glasses. Everyone knows where the glasses are and where they go after washing up.
If there are more than two people to cater for the take a second box that now lets you cater for four people. etc etc