Stories

New Restaurant Opening: Harper's Waterfront - Edgewater, Maryland

3/26/2023

A visit to a great new restaurant Harpers Waterfront in Edgewater, Maryland showed the Stolzle Lausitz brand star shining brightly.

With a variety of wineglass and barware items from several Stolzle glassware collections, including our Whisky Nosing glass, our glassware is paired nicely with dinnerware from our foodservice distribution partner RAK Porcelain USA for a great overall tabletop presentation. We are honored they chose Stölzle as their preferred glassware for this delicious new "casual, upscale" concept.

In an exclusive interview, the owner of Harper's Waterfront told local Patch.com:
"My dream was always to put a restaurant here," owner Todd Harper told Patch in an exclusive interview. "I know a lot of people are excited to have us." Harper's Waterfront is located at Turkey Point Marina & Yacht Club in Edgewater which is joust outside of boating capital Annapolis.

You can read the entire interview from Patch.com by visiting:
https://patch.com/maryland/edgewater/harpers-waterfront-restaurant-promises-wow-factor-edgewater

More smiles on more faces.

Job well done by RAK USA and local Maryland sales rep Mike Miguelez.
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The New Issue of STYLE is Out!

3/22/2023

In this issue of STYLE, you will see start to see a new look for the Stölzle Lausitz brand.

But there's still more that's new at our 135+ year-old company. We have new products, new looks + colors, new ideas and new leadership, so what you see is only the beginning of an entirely new chapter in the long and proud heritage of the Stölzle Lausitz brand around the world.

We are very excited to share all of this with you in the coming months and years.

We hope you are enjoying our STYLE publication where you can find interesting stories on our company, our products and the people that use them. This issue’s featured collection is our EXPERIENCE Collection. EXPERIENCE is one of most popular – and one of our most complete – collections! For those looking to upgrade their beverage service, EXPERIENCE is a great all-round choice.

Inside this issue, you’ll also find a story on a great American adventurer and a profile of an incredible resort that you might just want to add to your “must visit” list. And while our product offering on our e-commerce site is always growing, in this issue of STYLE you’ll find a feature on a couple of our very favorite cocktail glasses that have just been added – SWING and TWIST.

To subscribe to STYLE, fill out the form in the right hand column of this page.

So, sit back and relax. The summer holiday entertaining season is just around the corner!

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Jay and His Security Detail at This Year's Charleston Wine + Food Festival

3/8/2023

Our Sr. VP of Sales & Marketing Jay Allie hanging out with his Security Team at this year's Charleston Wine + Food Festival!

This year's event was another very special event and, if you have never attended, you definitely want to check out next year's dates and book a trip to what just might be America's "most friendly and hospitable" city, Charleston, South Carolina. You'll be glad you did.

Jay Does NAFEM

2/10/2023

If there's a good foodservice show happening, you can pretty much bet that our Sr. VP of Sales & Marketing, Jay Allie will be there! Whether its catching up with friends, both old & new, or engaged in business meetings with our foodservice partner RAK USA, Jay is taking it all in at shows like this.

The just-completed NAFEM Show in Orlando, Florida was no different.

A veteran of many, many trade shows throughout his many years, Jay also sees the changing landscape a bit differently than most and he easily offers his opinions about the future.

We are lucky to have Jay, his experience and all he brings to our company! Yea, Jay!

More smiles on more faces.
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Ambiente 2023: New Look, New Products, More Smiles

2/4/2023

Ambiente 2023

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Book Corner: A Sense of Place, A Journey Around Scotland's Whisky

1/22/2023

Who doesn’t love a great road trip?

“A Sense of Place, A journey around Scotland’s whisky” is a road trip. Falling in love with a road trip is easy when that road trip is to one of our favorite places and is painted with such vivid words, colors and overall emotions from author Dave Broom and photographer Christina Kernohan. A Sense of Place is the quintessential road trip that many of us would love to take, but may never be able to, or if we do, never be able record it such an illustrative fashion.

This is a book that’s more about the people and the places than it is about the product of Scotch Whisky. And, that’s why we fell in love with this book. If whisky is the reason then the people and places are the connection to this magical journey that Broom takes us on. So, for those looking for a treatise on the making whisky, filled with formulas, recipes, flavor profiles and the like – you may be disappointed. But for those looking to learn about the lives and the land behind the liquid, you’ve come to the right place.

From Dufftown to Islay, with many stops in between, A Sense of Place gives that feeling of great friends that you haven’t met yet. Friends like Dennis McBain. Dennis was born in Dufftown, close to the distilleries there, and you learn that while officially retired, he never quite gets away from the world of whisky where he worked for 50 years.

Like many of his other family members, the distilleries were a way of life and in A Sense of Place, you get to eavesdrop in on the author’s conversations with Dennis and the others you will meet along the way, feeling as though you may be right there in the room with them.

While well-known for our wine glasses, the Stölzle brand also has a wide variety of whisky glasses to add to your book reading pleasures.

When you get to Islay, you are introduced to James Brown, whose everyday seems built around thoroughly enjoying a life well lived and having a special knack for seizing opportunities both personal and business. From lighthouse keeper to rugby player, from farmer to supplier to the distilleries, Brown seems like that person from our hometown we all may know who just keeps rolling on, doing a bit of whatever needs doing all along the way.
And, maybe that’s why we like A Sense of Place so much.

While reading A Sense of Place you will learn much about the world of Scottish whisky, but you will learn this through the stories and through the everyday lives of those whose entire years have been intertwined with the spirit and the industry. Honest and straightforward, often in their own words.

And, for us, it’s those human stories of everyday folks that Dave Broom is able to bring to us through his words and descriptions, that we enjoy so much. Combined with Kernohan’s images, A Sense of Place offers us an opportunity to escape to Scotland and to connect with the people and the places that make the whisky produced there so special.
Some readers may think it all is a bit romanticized, but if that’s ok because that’s how we prefer our journeys.
After all who doesn’t love a great road trip?

So, pour yourself a dram and get ready to meet a few new friends.
Slàinte mhath!
(Good health!)

To learn more about A Sense of Place or to pick up a copy, you can visit:
https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Place-journey-Scotlands-whiskies/dp/1784726710/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2LHU1RT14EAPG&keywords=a+sense+of+place+a+journey+around+scotland%27s+whisky&qid=1674331481&sprefix=A+Sense+of+Place%2Caps%2C84&sr=8-1

Disclaimer:
Our thoughts and opinions on the books we write about are just that – our thoughts and opinions. Therefore, we share them freely about books that we feel are relevant to us and our readers. Finally, we absolutely appreciate the time, effort and resource required to produce a book so hats off to all the authors and the many other people it takes to bring these books forward to us.

Book Corner: Sharing The Spirit of Learning

1/11/2023

Like you probably, we are passionate about wine, spirits and beverages of all types. So, we love learning and often that learning and experiencing comes in the form of reading the thoughts of others who share their particular passion. But, beyond the beverages themselves, it is really the connection with others that often accompanies our enjoyment of these beverages that remains central to our passion.

So, in the coming weeks and months, we’ll occasionally be sharing our thoughts on what we are reading (or, perhaps re-reading) and enjoying. In the busy world that we all live in these days, there are few things more precious than a few quiet moments with a great book, accompanied by a great beverage. We hope you agree.

Good book. Good drink. Good evening.

We are currently reading and will start off with a terrific book by author Dave Broom “A Sense of Place” about his and photographer Christina Kernohan's journey through Scotland’s whisky regions. With such a great title, we could not think of a better beginning place for our new Book Corner. We’ll be giving you our thoughts on the chronology of the pair's magical tour shortly.

After all, how can you not fall in love with a book whose introduction starts “Scotch. Whisky. A drink named after the country of its birth.”

While our thoughts when finished will perhaps be more lay person than professional literary critic, all we can promise is that they will be honest, passionate and always from the heart.

It is our sincere hope that you may share a few of these thoughts and possibly they may help to inspire you to investigate these books on your own.

We can hope that may be the case. Cheers!

More smiles on more faces.
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More Smiles on More Faces

1/9/2023

We love it when our customers are smiling.
The size of the order or the customer doesn't matter. The size of the smiles DOES matter.

More smiles on more faces.
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Upgrade Your Tequila Presentation with EXPERIENCE 5 oz. Tumblers

1/4/2023

Over the five years between the third quarter of 2017 and 2022, all spirits categories included in the luxury index increased annual growth, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. However, luxury #tequila led the way at 44% growth rate.

Isn’t in time you elevated your tequila presentation experience? No worries - we’ve got you covered.

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For more on our 5 oz. EXPERIENCE Tequila Tumbler, please visit:
https://stolzle-glassware.myshopify.com/products/experience-whiskey-tequila-glass-5-5-oz-set-of-4

The Red Wines of Winter

12/8/2022

We love red wines the year round, but it is true that they seem to give us a special, warmer feeling during the colder months. We are not scientists or chemists, but drinking a luscious red wine during the cooler (ok, cold) winter months does seem to warm us from the inside out. That’s why when one our favorite reads, Food + Wine, published “14 Comforting Red Wines for the Coziest Time of the Year” we were all in!

But, along with the warmth and coziness brought about by that bold red, we love both the look and feel of it one of our larger bowl-sized glasses, like our STARlight Pinot/Burgundy, for instance.

STARlight has been a runaway hit since it first arrived a little over a year ago and it’s no wonder with its brilliance, balanced design and overall durability. But what we love most is the feel of STARlight in our hand and how the collection delivers the wine to our lips. Nothing short of fantastic. And, after all isn’t that the idea? STARlight delivers on all levels – the very practical, the physiological and the emotional.

If you are interested and want to take our STARlight Collection out for a good test drive, from now ‘til the end of the year, we have a promotion code to help you save on STARlight:

STARlightSTARbright

We love our STARlight Pinot/Burgundy for the oversized bowl that allows for great looks, lots of aeration and an overall great wine experience!

Here's a link to our STARlight Collection:
https://stolzle-glassware.myshopify.com/search?q=STARlight&options%5Bprefix%5D=last

And, if you would like to learn more from the experts at Food + Wine about “14 Comforting Red Wines for the Coziest Time of the Year” please visit: https://www.foodandwine.com/best-comforting-red-wines-6836127

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