The Austrian company @riedel_official has paid particular attention to manufacturing wine- friendly glasses since the 1970s. Recently, it unveiled Veloce, a line of glasses made by a machine at Riedel’s factory in Weiden, Germany, that mimics the techniques of master glassmakers. The result is the tallest machine-made glass with the broadest possible base in the company’s history. Veloce represents an evolution of the Riedel Extreme collection, first launched by Georg Riedel in 2000. The bowls are diamond shaped (as opposed to the egg shape used for the company’s best-selling ranges including Sommeliers and Vinum), which gives fruit-forward, intensely flavoured and higher alcohol styles of wine more space to express their aromas. Working to improve the quality of its machine-made products helps the historic glassworks answer growing demand. Its team of craftspeople can produce 300,000 to 400,000 handmade glasses annually, but its machines can manufacture 60-million glasses in the same time period. Text by @waters_wine.