Thursday, September 24, 2026

Tour of the "Riedel Glas Manufaktur" in Kufstein, Austria (September 2026)






 
Jointly with Graydon Vandament American Wine Society and Cindy, Annette Schiller Ombiasy Public Relations and Wine Tours and I toured the Riedel Glass Manufacture in Kufstein Austria. 
 
 
Riedel is a leading producer of high-end wine glasses. 
 
Recently, at the initiative of @Graydon Vandament, Riedel got involved with the American Wine Society. Inter alia, Riedel will be a sponsor at the forthcoming Annual Conference of the @American Wine Society in @Jacksonville, Florida. 
 
Riedel was originally established in 1756 in the Sudetenland, a German speaking part of Bohemia, but the family lost everything in the Second World War and engineered an astonishing rebirth in 1956 in Kufstein, Austria. Today, along with Zalto, Riedel is dominating the market for high-end wine glasses. 
 
Riedel is a pioneer of grape-specific wine glasses. There is a large variety of different Riedel glasses, for different wine grapes and regions. 
 
1% of Riedel's production is hand-made glasses and 99% is machine-made glasses. The entire production of hand-made glasses takes place in a relatively small facility in Kufstein, which we were able to tour with a guide. It was a fascinating experience. 
 
In the absence of the 11-generation owner @Maximilan Riedel (on a sales trip to the Netherlands and Germany), we were welcomed by his Personal Assistant @Katharina Wolf.
 
Arriving
 



Welcome
 



Production Facility
 














Museum
 


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