The Josephine Wine Glass by Josephinenhütte wins the “Best of Best” Iconic Awards 2022- Innovative interior

“With his design for a lightweight, thin-walled, yet flexible wineglass, the Austrian glassmaker has gone beyond the current concept of a good glass.”

The glass designer creates the best glasses of their kind, as innovative and astounding as the original Josephinenhütte products. Glasses which open up a new dimension in taste through their visionary construction. Thanks to their characteristic shape and expressive colours, they are a joy to all the senses. Glasses which bring vibrancy to their contents and to those who drink out of them. They not only fulfil their purpose to perfection but are also so striking that they bring people together in conversation. Glasses that are full of life – a delightful sensory experience.

“In the great tradition of craftsmen, Josephinenhütte has worked together with prominent figures from design, fine arts and contemporary gastronomy to create the new collection. Through an inventive handcrafting process, in combination with diverse complementary concepts, the finest glasses have originated to suit a variety of different needs. An ever-expanding range with one common feature: each Josephinenhütte glass is a unique handblown piece, made by passionate craftsmen.”

*Connoisseur Magazine presents and shares a selection of  quotations from wine experts in the Restaurant and hospitality sectors which best encapsulate the numerous impressions that these glasses engender.

Can a great wine glass make a bad wine taste better?

You appreciate a drink more from a good glass. A good glass is honest with a wine, because it allows it to show its characteristics better. What I like about the glasses from Josephinenhütte is that they show off the best parts of a drink: like when you look at yourself in the mirror thinking ‘I look so good today!’ But they are well balanced, the glass is definitely no phony. It would be mean to drink a 2,99 Euro wine from Josephinenhütte glasses. You would smell things you just don’t want to smell. So, if you own good wine glasses, you have to drink good wine.

You use wine glasses from the „Josephine” series at your restaurant. Do you consider the characteristic undulation an aesthetic or a functional element?

In my opinion, the undulation definitely has a clear function. The bend makes a lot of sense, especially for the champagne flute. Champagne and sparkling wines made from apples or rhubarb taste excellent from this glass. We also find that beer goes well in these glasses. The aroma comes across as fruity, lively and very precise.

This is the new Josephinenhütte, committed to traditional craftsmanship and absolute sophistication: The World’s finest glasses.

Discover the JOSEPHINE collection

Exceptionally light and thin-walled, yet astoundingly elastic, exquisitely delicate and yet robust. Each filigree glass is a unique mouth-blown work of art.

Inspired by the historical art of glassmaking

Our role model: the former Josephinenhütte. A Silesian glassworks in the Sudeten Mountains, founded in 1842 by Count Leopold von Schaffgotsch and named after his beloved wife Josephine. The glassmaker Franz Pohl, head of Josephinenhütte, was a gifted creator and artistic pioneer who went beyond the boundaries of what was thought possible in glassmaking at the time. Thus, were created glass objects of technical sophistication and absolute beauty, which made Josephinenhütte one of the most significant glassworks in Europe and the New World.

A century later, fate put an end to the success story of Josephinenhütte and over the decades the former splendour fell into obscurity.

The History

Berlin 2019 – The new Josephinenhütte

Three friends, fascinated and inspired by the value of true craftmanship, want to bring Josephinenhütte back to life. The dream is to create glasses that are delicate and light, sophisticated and exquisite and which re-establish the exceptional Josephinenhütte standards.

The keystone to completing this vision: Kurt Josef Zalto, possibly the most gifted glass designer of our time. He should, and has, become the creative director of Josephinenhütte.