Tom Douglas by Pinzon Wine Decanter, Nachtmann by Riedel

Beautifully designed and made decanter. Clean lines, heavy glass, and perfect symmetry. Although other commenters are slightly negative about the size of the opening, I think its the perfect size for pouring, and fine for filling. Bottom line, beautiful decanter that I would busy again.

I've bought a few decanters in my lifetime. I'm great fan of Riedel's glassware. This decanter is nicely shaped, beautiful and heavy glass, disperses the wines with a minimum of effort in trying to fill it, and is physically without any flaws (air bubbles, etc.). If I broke it (the only reason I've had to buy a few decanters in my lifetime) I would replace it with the identical model. In other words, I would recommend it to myself! 'Nuff said.

I bought this and had it gift wrapped and sent to my mother for her birthday. I didn't have to call her on her birthday she called me she was so happy with my gift. Her words were it is very striking and beautiful and I plan to use it often. So hooray. Do you know how hard it is to satisfy a 78 year old woman who has everything? So Mom is happy that means that I am super satisfied with this item and with Amazon. Thanks guys you saved the day this year, now we have a whole year to find the next perfect gift.

I usually don't like relying on only one review for things I purchase, but took a chance anyway. The decanter arrived fine, looked good, worked well, other than the afore mentioned
drawback of a too narrow opening. After about three weeks it developed a 'speck' on the neck, one inch down from the top. This wound up being the same as a 'speck' on a car windshield,
because a crack rapidly ran around the neck in a near perfect circle. It is only one quarter inch from joining itself and can be felt both in and out. The obvious is going to happen soon and we are currently looking for another product.

This is a nicely made wine decanter. It works well in dispersing the wine along its sides for oxygenating. If it were to be redesigned I would only change the diameter of the mouth to allow a little more space for pouring the wine into the decanter, as sometimes the wine spills over the edge when filling.