Originally Posted by Dugernaut

Now that the thread has been renamed to refer to beverage glasses I have a question for the crowd.

At what point does the red wine get upgraded from the standard wine glasses to the good ones? I was dining a couple of weeks ago and we ordered a mid-high range Cab on the list. The waiter brought over the standard run of the mill wine glasses and the table off to the side was enjoying their wine in the Reidel type glasses. We asked for the better glass and he said no problem, but why wouldn't they offer them up in the first place?