White wine glass
These are generally narrower than red wine glasses with straight or tulip shaped sides. The narrowness allows the chilled wine to retain its temperature. As a result, your body heat doesn't transfer easily to your wine.
Cocktails served: Boston Freeze, Roadrunner, Orange Chocolate Martini and Russian Roulette
Champagne flute
This is a stem glass, with a tall, narrow bowl, and is used for serving champagne cocktails. The bowl is designed to retain the champagne's signature carbonation by reducing the surface area at the opening of the bowl.
Cocktails served: Arctic Kiss, Aqua Marina, Black Velvet, Bombay Bellini and Chambord
The Rock
This is your old-fashioned glass, usually short and broad, with straight or slightly sloping sides. They are also called tumblers.
Cocktails served: Royal Gingersnap, Godiva Cranberry Martini, Blue Diablo, Guava Maria and Greek Tiger
Red wine glass
These glasses are characterised by their rounder, wider bowls, giving the wine much needed breathing space. Since most reds are meant to be consumed at room temperature; the wider bowl also allows the wine to cool more quickly.
Cocktails served: Caribbean Cooler, Green Killer, Mont Blanc and Prairie Chicken
Highball
These glasses are of medium width, and tall, with straight or slightly sloping sides. The base is the same diameter as the rim.
Cocktails served: Sea Breeze, Sex on the Beach, Malibu Sea Breeze, Rock Lobster, Jelly Bean
The Irish coffee cup
With a short stem and handle, the Irish Coffee Cup is also known as the Irish Coffee Glass and has the capacity to hold approximately 220-280 ml.
Cocktails served: Irish Coffee, Glogg, Hot Buttered Rum, An Irish Kiss and Flaming Spanish Fly
Collins glass
Named after th e legendary cocktail Tom Collins, the Collin's Glass is narrow and is perfect for holding about 280-450 ml.
Cocktails served: Big Apple, Mai Tai, Tom Collins, Long Island Iced Tea and Mokito
Margarita glass
This glass has a slightly larger and rounded approach for a cocktail glass, and is broad-rimmed for holding salt making it ideal for margaritas.
Cocktails served: Italian Margarita, Cranberry Vodka Slush, Ultimate Margarita, Ultimate Mudslide and Peach Margarita
Martini glass
This glass has a triangle-bowl design with a long stem, and is used for a wide range of cocktails served without ice. Holds approximately 80-220 ml, and is also known as a Cocktail Glass.
Cocktails served: Apple Martini, Chaitini, Miami Vice, Strawberry Ice and Grasshopper
Sherry glass
This is used for serving aromatic alcoholic beverages, such as Sherry, Port and layered shooters. The small, narrow stemmed glass serves 60 ml.
Cocktails served: Afterburner, Dangerous Liaisons, After Eight, Opaque Bloom and Rattlesnake Shooter
Some of these exclusive cocktail glasses are available at Swarovski, Ravissant and Riedel.
