The wine glass for every night of the week.

Spiegelau is the working-glass arm of the Riedel family, and Style is its middle line: lead-free crystal glass, machine made in Germany, with a 22 oz bowl that is generous without being a fishbowl. The rim is thinner than anything you will find at this price from a department store house brand.

Spiegelau says its glasses come through 1,500 dishwasher cycles without clouding or loss of brilliance, and owners report they hold up to exactly that kind of use. Because a set of twelve costs about what two stems of the fancier glasses do, nobody flinches when one goes.

Skip it if you want the glass itself to feel like an event. It is well made and correct, but it has the slight heft and even thickness of machine production, and it will never feel weightless in the hand.

Schott Zwiesel (the brand now sells as Zwiesel Glas) makes its stemware from Tritan, a lead-free crystal glass that uses titanium in place of lead. The point of it is strength: the maker says Tritan resists chipping, scratching and breaking, which is why you see it behind so many restaurant bars.

Pure is the best-known line. The bowl has a sharp shoulder and a long, straight-sided taper, and the Cabernet size holds plenty. The sibling Tour line is rounder and a touch more traditional if the angles bother you. Both are machine made in Zwiesel, Bavaria.

Skip it if you want a classic silhouette, or if you rarely break glasses anyway. The extra toughness is real, but you are paying for it in a design that reads as contemporary.

Gabriel-Glas was started by the Swiss wine critic René Gabriel on a simple argument: a single well-shaped bowl does the work of a dozen varietal glasses. The StandArt is the machine-blown version. Bowl, stem and foot are drawn from one piece of lead-free crystal, so there are no joins or seams, and it weighs about 150 grams, which is noticeably lighter than most machine-made stems.

The bowl holds 510 ml and has a subtle kink at its widest point that sets a natural pour line and gives wine room to open. Reds, whites, Champagne and even spirits all sit comfortably in it. It goes in the dishwasher, and the maker says the crystal is tested in the EU for clarity after 1,000 cycles.

Skip it if you want matched sets of red and white glasses on a formal table, or if you dislike a modern bowl. And note the Gold edition, which is mouth blown and lighter still, costs roughly twice as much.

Riedel launched Veritas in 2014 as a machine-blown glass meant to feel like handmade stemware. It is thinner and taller than Riedel's older Vinum line, and the Cabernet/Merlot shape is the big, traditional Bordeaux bowl you picture when you picture a wine glass. It is made in Riedel's Bavarian factories.

Riedel rates all of Veritas as dishwasher safe. The Cabernet/Merlot is the one to own if you want a single glass; the Riesling/Zinfandel is a better white-wine glass but too small for big reds. Riedel's own store sells it in buy-three-get-four value packs, which brings the per-stem price down.

Skip it if you have a small cabinet. At over nine inches tall, it does not fit on every shelf, and the long stem is where machine-made glasses tend to snap during hand drying.

Zalto glasses are blown by hand at the Zalto glassworks in Neunagelberg, Austria, near the Czech border, in lead-free crystal. The Denk'Art line takes its name from Hans Denk, the priest and wine thinker who helped design the shapes, and the bowls break at angles of 24, 48 and 72 degrees.

The Universal holds about 530 to 555 ml and stands roughly nine inches tall. It is very thin at the rim and very light, and it suits nearly any still wine. Zalto recommends the dishwasher over hand washing, because twisting the bowl against the stem while drying by hand is how most of them break.

Skip it if you have children, a dog with a tail, or a small sink. It is not fragile in the dishwasher so much as unforgiving everywhere else, and at nearly $80 a stem you will notice every loss.