I offer a few of each, stem, several stemless and a some plastic stemless for outside use. I keep the stemmed on an upper high shelf and the majority of stemless with the other glassware but also put some in the bar area. Nothing so expensive I would care if it’s broken.
Extremely inspiring! Wheels turning, smoke coming out of computer, feverish research, etc.
Love this idea!
I personally hate “branded” anything.
Brilliant marketing coup, though. That you can actually get people to pay to advertise your business for free.
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My daughter hates drinking beer that comes in a can, even if it’s poured into a glass. She says it tastes like aluminum.
I have one in my bag, one in each car glove box, and several strewn strategically around the house.
I am also adept at opening with with a stiletto heel, sneaker or shoe, and … well… you know…
Absolutely essential.
Excellent idea! Swag Bags with logos!
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Awwwww booooo.
I’m giving them away. They disappear anyway. May as well get some promotion out of it.
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I have one in the car. There are over 40 wineries within a 2 hour drive. Often pack snacks & go. My SUV has a small in-wall compartment in the back for the emergency first aid kit & emergency battery. My cockscrew lives with my emergency supplies!
Edit: cork!! Cork!! Not cockscrew—what is that anyway? I hate autocorrect
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That’s one of the reasons I miss Ventura and San Diego. We could just hop in a car, pack a picnic, and GO. We would do the “Sideways” movie wine tour years before that movie came out. And then the road trips to Napa and Sonoma… sigh Temecula has amazing wineries and when we weren’t sailing… off to the mountains! 
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North Carolina had to figure out what to do with the thousands of acres of tobacco farm land. Turns out NC soil & climate grows some healthy, tasty grapes.
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Same in my area. If it is a short trip, I take my youngest dog. He is Mr. Social and loves it—mutt, may be Pomeranian, poodle, Yorkie (?) 8 pounds of bark.
My older dog stays home and catches up on his sleep. He wouldn’t enjoy the people or noise. He’s an Old dog with a troubled past before coming to my home.
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Good to know that Chef and the Farmer can now find local wines! I wonder why I never see NC wines on “A Chef’s Life”?
NC boasts over 100 wineries, over 500 vineyards.
I don’t know why she doesn’t feature NC wines. She doesn’t post her wine list on-line with her menu either.
NC has 5 Nationally designated AVAs (appellation regions like Napa Valley). There ought be a Tictok “no body knows” 
(instead of Nobody will know).
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Wine glasses - we have a few wineries here that have supplied us with their glasses (have their names on them) as advertising. In exchange, they get top billing on our list of local wineries. We’ve also had wineries provide rack cards good for free tastings that we’ve posted in the cabins. Amazing what you can get when you ask, and we are all in this together.
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The 290 wine trail looks like fun! Beautiful places too.
Jeez, I can just roll out of bed, and within 5mins I’m inhaling the wonderful rich aroma of several hundred boots (barrels) of the finest fortified wine known to man.
If I decide to stretch my legs, the choices are endless. No car required, at least to get there, getting home is different 
JF
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I had no idea that NC was a wine producing region, but then again we rarely see wines from outside Spain on our shelves.
The tiny international selection (in most places) usually comprises of a dozen or so French, some Portuguese, a few south American and the obligatory NZ Sav Blancs.
Given the variety of domestic produce, I prob have neither the years nor the longevity of my liver to venture further than 20kms of our house for experimentation
JF
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Ah the differences between California, where one must drive everywhere, and Europe, where walking or bicycling is considered first before getting in a car. And, like the Northeastern US, public transport is readily available.
No grapes here, but I have 2 craft breweries and a distillery within a 15 minute walk.
Sorry @JohnF but this year’s 3 yr old small batch single malt sold out. I have tried their Flagship, where they used green alder to dry malt. It was quite nice. The distiller has spent considerable time on Islay over the past 10 years.
FYI, this is priced as same as Bowmore costs at Costco.
Their JuneauPer Gin is made with locally foraged wild botanicals.
Ok, this is hilarious! First, I HAD stemless wine glasses until breakage got the better of me.
I THOUGHT guests would appreciate the acrylic glasses so they wouldn’t have to worry about breaking them. Better rethink that I guess. My regular water cups are acrylic & they stay. There are ceramic tea/coffee cups, though.
The funny…I have 3 or 4 of the stainless steel wine “glasses” with the sippy lid. I got them as a gift and HATE them. Why? Because they don’t fit my car cup holders (butt is to big, obviously!) so I put them out in the garage for my next Goodwill run 
. I didn’t know they were wine glasses!!! 
That makes total sense now. They’ll be going to the rental next run 
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