There are wine glasses for sipping Chardonnay on the patio, and they can’t cost much or you wouldn’t take them outdoors. There are large wine glasses for when you’ve had a tough day at work, though we prefer to call them tumblers. And then there are wine glasses for the Thanksgiving table, which can be all exquisite shimmer and delicate shape.

Make that holiday toast to good health and thankfulness among your family and friends a beautiful one with some striking stemware.

Let’s start with the showstoppers at Artful Home. We know these are wild and colorful and really expensive, but we cannot resist showing them first. The tutti frutti wine twist goblets are handblown in a rainbow of colors, each signed by the artist ($310, top); the Maori mask goblets are tall and sculptural, with a color palette that reminds us of stained glass ($890, above left). And that takes us to Horchow, where their jewel-colored Perles drinkware glistens in all the colors of the rainbow  (set of 4, $320, above center). 

OK, maybe that’s all a little too pricey to drink from, or a little too attention-getting for your table.

Let’s calm it down just a bit with Lalique’s Langeais wine glass, a Bloomingdale’s showpiece, with its thick swirl of carved glass at the stem ($195 each, above right); we envision a dozen of them sparkling down the table.

For a more modern look, Calvin Klein brings us precision and geometry in his Bergen stemware ($31 each, above left), and Horchow graduates to theorems with their Pythagore drinkware ($68 each, above right).

Williams-Sonoma’s pewter wine glasses set a wide clear bowl on top of a pretty pewter stem; we  can almost see them on a Renaissance table (set of 4, $120). We love Ballard Designs’ weighted Fleur-de-Lis wine glasses (set of 4, $44), Pier One’s etched Versailles stemware ($8 each, above left), and Neiman Marcus’ heavy pearl wine glasses ($260 each, above right) for the same reason - their curvalinear, intricate designs look like heirlooms.

Worried about fragility? Stemless glassware is very hot now. Pottery Barn’s stemless wine glasses are shaped just like traditional glasses, only with no stem to worry about in the dishwasher (set of 6, $42, above left). Their hand-blown Claro stemware, on the other hand, have thick stems with pretty round glass discs nestled beneath the bowl (set of 6, $65).             

For an autumn touch, look at Sur La Table’s amber seeded goblet ($32 each, above right), Neiman Marcus’ Catia drinkware (set of 4, $190, below left), or Frontgate’s Christmas cheer wine glasses (set of 4, $69, below right). They will bring a golden touch to your festivities.