The champagne glass for New Year's Eve and after.

This is the champagne glass from Schott Zwiesel's Tulip line: a tall, slim bowl that swells slightly and closes at the rim, with an etched effervescent point in the bottom. It holds about 10 ounces and stands 9.1 inches tall, which is enough room to pour a proper glass and still leave space above the wine.

It is made in Germany in Zwiesel's Tritan crystal, a lead-free glass the company makes to stand up to commercial dishwashers, which is why its glasses turn up in so many hotels and restaurants. At roughly $5 a stem, it is the set to buy when you need twelve glasses for a party and do not want to mind the ones that break.

Skip it if you want a glass that feels special in the hand. It is sturdy rather than fine, and the rim is thicker than the crystal picks further down.

Spiegelau is owned by Riedel, and Definition, introduced in 2021, is its thinnest machine-made line. The champagne glass has an egg-shaped bowl of about 250 ml (9 oz), a sparkling point, and a very fine rim. Retailers list the glass at about 100 grams, which is light for a glass made by machine.

This is the glass the Champagne houses describe: room in the bowl for aroma, a narrowing rim, a long stem to keep your hand off the wine. It is lead-free crystal made in Germany, and it goes in the dishwasher. For most households it is the right glass for the holidays and the occasional bottle through the year.

Skip it if you are buying for a crowd. Sold in pairs, it adds up quickly, and the Schott Zwiesel set does the party work for less.

The coupe is the wrong glass for tasting champagne. The bubbles spread out across the wide surface and fade, and the aroma goes with them. It is also the prettiest glass on a table, the one people reach for on New Year's Eve, and it doubles for cocktails served up, a sidecar or a daiquiri, and for sorbet.

Schott Zwiesel's Bar Special bowl is 6 inches tall and 4.2 inches across, holding about 9.5 ounces. It is made in Germany in the same Tritan crystal as the Tulip set, so it survives the dishwasher.

Skip it if champagne is the only thing you pour. A tulip will give you more of the wine, and a coupe is easy to spill when a room is crowded.

Plenty of wine professionals now pour serious champagne into a white wine glass rather than a flute, because the wider bowl lets the wine show its aroma. Gabriel-Glas takes that to its conclusion. The Swiss wine critic René Gabriel designed a single universal glass for every wine, sparkling included.

The StandArt is the machine-made edition, drawn in one seamless piece of lead-free crystal. The bowl holds about 16 ounces, so a normal pour of champagne sits low in the glass with plenty of room above it. It goes in the dishwasher.

Skip it if you want the look of a champagne glass on the table. It does not have a sparkling point, so the bubbles are a little less showy, and to a guest it reads as a wine glass.

Fatto a Mano Performance marries two of Riedel's lines: a machine-blown bowl, with the slight optic ribbing of its Performance glasses, joined to a stem and base finished by hand at Riedel's glassworks in Kufstein, Austria. The champagne glass is an egg-shaped tulip with a sparkling point, 9.8 inches tall, holding about 13 ounces.

This version has a clear stem and a black base, which sets off a pale wine in a way that photographs well and looks deliberate on a dark table. Riedel also makes a black-stem version and colored stems. It is dishwasher safe and ships in a single gift box.

Skip it unless the glass is a gift or a centerpiece. At about $159 each, it costs more than most bottles you will pour into it, and a set of six is a serious purchase.

Zalto's Denk'Art glasses are hand-blown in lead-free crystal and named for Hans Denk, the Austrian priest and wine critic who helped design them. The champagne glass is a flute in outline with a slightly larger bowl, 9.4 inches tall and 3 inches across at its widest, holding about 220 ml. That is close to the ideal 22.5 cl the Champagne houses describe.

In the hand it weighs almost nothing and the rim is very thin, so there is nothing between you and the wine. The Manufactory, the retail arm of Zalto's US importer, recommends the dishwasher over hand washing, because twisting the bowl against the stem while drying is how most of these glasses break.

Skip it if you entertain with a crowd, have children in the house, or tend to hand-wash in a hurry. It is the best glass here for tasting and the least forgiving of a bump.