THE STORY OF THE ONE STEMWARE
Stemware by Master Sommelier, Andrea Immer Robinson

Wine is a joy. It has been my profession and my passion to enhance and simplify the
experience of wine for everyone. The story of The ONE is no exception.
A few years ago, I was asked by many of the leading stemware companies to create a line of
wine glasses requiring a different stem for every type of grape. After comparing hundreds of
glasses and designs, I was thrilled to discover that you don’t actually need all of those stems to
optimize your wines.

Here’s why. The objective behind all those shapes – directing where the wine lands on your
tongue, simply doesn’t matter. It seems to me that logically, this “landing spot” differs by
person and by how much wine is in the glass. More important, the tongue can only sense
sweet, sour, bitter and salt anyway.
It is your nose, not your tongue, that reveals a wine’s flavor and complexity. That means you
only need one shape to give your nose all that the wine has to offer.
"Wine doesn’t have to be expensive to complicated to be awesome. Now, the glasses don’t
either!

So with more testing, and some refinements from my most accomplished wine friends, The ONE
was born. The ONE has it all – crystal clarity, a thin rim and a shape and size that outperforms
a cabinet full of grape-specific stems. Try it for yourself and let me know what you think at
AndreaWine.com.

Oh, and one more thing – as a sommelier and a mother of three, I had to make The ONE stems
practical. They are break-resistant, dishwasher-safe, and half the cost of other European crystal
stems.

I am thrilled to share my simple solution to stemware –The ONE.