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W woofmutt Member Seattilite Telstar Joined: Mar 26, 2002 Posts: 2639	W woofmutt Posted posted on Mon, Mar 15, 2010 3:09 PM "The closest I've come is a thrift store that had about 20 of the same shape but they were about half the diameter. they couldn't have held more than 2 to 3 fluid ounces. I want something in the 5-ounce range. "I'm finding that the Champagne 'coupe'is, as one online source put it: "nearly extinct'..." -TeeKeeMan- Do you know if this exact style was made in a five ounce size? If all you've only found small ones there's a good chance that's the only size that was made. Older cocktail glasses were often pretty small. I've come across some that I figured to be pre-1960s which were at the very most three ounces. Rumors of the coupe's demise may be premature. It's been supposedly making a comeback for a few years now. Wayne Curtis mentioned the coupe recently in a piece he wrote for the JAN/FEB 2010 issue of the Atlantic called Super Sized Cocktails...The drinking man’s case for smaller servings: Happily, some of the country’s better bars—like the venerable Pegu Club in New York, and Craigie on Main in Cambridge—are inciting a small-cocktail revival. If I had to nominate one icon to represent this trend, it would be the newly popular coupe glass. This is a small, stemmed glass with a gently rounded bowl that makes it more stable and more comfortable in the hand than a stiffly angled Martini glass. Coupes generally hold only four or five ounces, and they inspire many pleasing myths, the most persistent being that the original was made from a mold of Marie Antoinette’s breast. They were once used to serve champagne, but fell out of favor when flutes proved superior. Today you’ll find classic drinks like the Hanky Panky and the Boulevardier served in them, allowing topers to get a snootful of aromatics as they sip.

*"The closest I've come is a thrift store that had about 20 of the same shape but they were about half the diameter. they couldn't have held more than 2 to 3 fluid ounces. I want something in the 5-ounce range.

"I'm finding that the Champagne 'coupe'is, as one online source put it: "nearly extinct'..."* -TeeKeeMan-

Do you know if this exact style was made in a five ounce size? If all you've only found small ones there's a good chance that's the only size that was made. Older cocktail glasses were often pretty small. I've come across some that I figured to be pre-1960s which were at the very most three ounces.

Rumors of the coupe's demise may be premature. It's been supposedly making a comeback for a few years now. Wayne Curtis mentioned the coupe recently in a piece he wrote for the JAN/FEB 2010 issue of the Atlantic called Super Sized Cocktails...The drinking man’s case for smaller servings:

Happily, some of the country’s better bars—like the venerable Pegu Club in New York, and Craigie on Main in Cambridge—are inciting a small-cocktail revival. If I had to nominate one icon to represent this trend, it would be the newly popular coupe glass. This is a small, stemmed glass with a gently rounded bowl that makes it more stable and more comfortable in the hand than a stiffly angled Martini glass. Coupes generally hold only four or five ounces, and they inspire many pleasing myths, the most persistent being that the original was made from a mold of Marie Antoinette’s breast. They were once used to serve champagne, but fell out of favor when flutes proved superior. Today you’ll find classic drinks like the Hanky Panky and the Boulevardier served in them, allowing topers to get a snootful of aromatics as they sip.

Post #517560 by woofmutt on Mon, Mar 15, 2010 3:09 PM