Bormioli Rocco Electra Wine Stemware Set
UPDATE 09/24/13: Spotted a few left priced at $12.97.
UPDATE 08/21/13: Price has been reduced to only $14.97 for the 8-piece Bormioli Rocco Electra Wine Stemware Set. If you want it, get it before it’s gone.
Costco has this 8-piece all-purpose wine stemware set by Bormioli Rocco. We had never heard of them but found out that Bormioli Rocco is an Italian company with glassware factory that dates back to 1825.
The collection we saw at Costco was the Bormioli Rocco Electra Break-Resistant All-Purpose Wine Stemware Set.
These are large glasses, with 18.6 oz (550 mL) capacity, about 9 1/8” x 3 5/8” x 2 5/8” x 3.
The features highlighted on the box were:
- Made of Star Glass – new chemical composition that creates glass with high purity and transparency but is completely lead free.
- XLT Treatment – an innovation created by Bormioli Rocco to protect, strengthen and enhance the wine glasses’ resistance to breakage. The XLT treatment supposedly maintains its strength over 250 wash cycles
- Recommended by Italian Sommeliers Association
We found an interesting Bormioli Rocco video on YouTube that compares a glass with XLT treatment versus one without being hit with a pendulum at increasing degrees of height. A normal glass will break easily at a certain degree while the XLT treated glass soldiered on despite being hit at increasing degrees of force.
Seeing is believing so the video really makes a convincing case of the benefits of the XLT treatment.
The 8-piece Bormioli Rocco Electra Break-Resistant All-Purpose Wine Stemware Set is sold for $19.99 at Costco.
Item number is 714885.
While supplies last. Inventory and pricing at your store may/will vary.
