With the New Year almost here, we remain excited and optimistic about the year ahead and, hopefully, you do as well.
It will be good to finally have this past year in our rear-view mirror. And, while our New Year's Eve celebrations may be a bit different this year, this year's celebrations may be our most important in quite some time. Certainly we all have much to be grateful for despite all the challenges we all have endured since the pandemic arrived at everyone's doorstep early in 2020. Let's all hope that 2021 brings good health and postive vibes in all areas to each of us.

To kick off all those positive vibes, amNY.com has a variety of suggestions for bringing in the New Year in style. We only have one major point of disagreement with their several great suggestions. Where is part ways with an otherwise solid list of suggestions is on the glassware for our bubbly chosen for the evening. May we kindly suggest you forego the $4 stems from Target and treat yourself well with one of the many fine Stolzle flute options.

Stolzle has been designing and producing great crystal glassware for more than 130 years. During that time, besides producing a line of high-quality, high-performance glassware we have also attempted to manage our business in such a way as to always make sure our activities served the end customer.

Once we connected with either a great restaurant, a great hotel or a consumer who would use our glassware in their home, we have strived to ensure that we exceed their expectations. For us at Stolzle, exceeding expectations means both in service and in the performance of our products.

​Whether the customer is large or small has never mattered – we have always made strong efforts to satisfy their requirements to keep that bond for life – hence the moniker “Stolzle for Life.”

“First for us is the quality of our products. We produce world-class glassware products so our products always must meet a high standard for quality,” says Jay Allie, Stolzle Sr. VP of Sales & Marketing. “But we are also very diligent about providing great service to our customers, both big and small. And, for us, that service continues after the purchase. If a customer believes they have a ‘problem’, there is no problem – we take care of it immediately. We want our customers to stay with us for life.”

The theme of “Stolzle for Life” also extends to our network of distribution partners and sales representatives. No matter the channel of distribution, our goal is always constant communication, mutual trust and support to those supply chain partners to better understand their needs so that we can ultimately continue to satisfy the end customer.
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“Whether it a hospitality salesperson who is representing us or a retailer who is stocking our glassware,” continued Allie. “It is important to us that we have great cooperation up and down the line. Our philosophy of ‘Stolzle for Life’ is important here also. Strong partnerships with our sales and distribution partners is a priority for us.”

And certainly “Stolzle for Life” resonates to all who use our products whether in a restaurant, a vineyard or in their home. Our goal is always to help people enhance their lives and their connections with family and friends over a great beverage.

At Stolzle, we strongly believe that people are deeply hardwired to connect with other people. Additionally, we believe that this connection happens best over great food and great beverage.

Therefore, at Stolzle, we want to always enable better and more frequent connections by creating great glassware and beverage serving products that elevate and enhance the times we get together.

Our priority at Stolzle is to continue to create world-class, high-performance glassware that is approachable, affordable, and available throughout the world.

#Stolzle for Life.
Indeed.

The holiday season is here and it is a great time to explore new wines and, even new wine regions.

Departures magazine recently published a terrific article and showed that whether your taste runs more red than white or more affordable than expensive, there are plenty of great wines available to try this year. Included are such finds as a $20 sparkler all the way on up to $800 Penfolds Shiraz, but with plenty of great selections all along the way in between.

But, just as choosing the right wines for the holidays is important, so is choosing the right wine glass. Our Experience collection has a complete range of stemware to give any of wines you might select the perfect drinking vessel. From bubbles to Bordeaux, Experience has just the right characteristics.

Working with sommeliers, we initially designed Experience for lovers of Riesling. Seeing the smiles we added to the faces of Riesling lovers everywhere, we quickly expanded the Experience collection for lovers of all types of wines.

​The machine pulled stem Experience wine glasses impress with their elegant and stylish shape combining to result in a very high-performance glassware collection. While your guests will be smiling on how great your wines taste, our Experience wine glasses are also designed with an approachability and a functionality allowing for everyday usage.

So, this holiday season, no matter what wines you choose be sure to choose a great wine glass like our Experience wine glasses to serve it in. Our Experience wine glasses are available at great tabletop retailers everywhere.

Here’s the link to the Departures magazine article: https://www.departures.com/lifestyle/wine-spirits/best-wines-to-buy-holiday-season#22
 
Happy Holidays!
Cheers!