Margarita Glass Sombrero 270ml, Wide Rim for Salt (Pack of 6)

For bars with the Margarita on the list, served properly. The salt rim is part of the recipe, not decoration: it changes every sip, because the salt arrives before the liquid and rounds off the acidity of the lime. On a narrow rim you get a thin line that is gone in three sips; on a wide rim it lasts as long as the drink.

Moisten the outer rim with a lime wedge, set the glass on salt spread on a saucer and turn it, keeping the glass tilted outwards. The step almost everyone gets wrong is wetting the inside too: salt that ends up inside dissolves into the drink and makes it salty instead of rimmed, which is a fault, not a variation. A wide rim like this one makes the gesture easier to control, because it gives the salt a surface to spread evenly without falling in.

• Capacity: 270ml brim-full
• Shape: sombrero, wide rim for salting
• Dimensions: 16.5 x 13 x 13cm
• Pack quantity: 6 glasses
• Resistance: higher resistance to knocks and thermal shock
• Dishwasher safe: yes

Choose the Sombrero if

The Margarita is a real line on your list, served up or over crushed ice. For short stirred classics, a small glass with an inward-curving rim keeps them cold much longer.

The declared resistance, and why this shape needs it

The manufacturer states higher resistance to knocks and thermal shock, which fits the use. A margarita glass often goes from the freezer or the ice straight to a hot wash, because the Margarita is served ice-cold and often frozen: that cycle creates the microfractures behind apparently unexplained breakages, the glass that splits in the hand a week later. On a wide shape with a broad rim, already delicate around its edge, that extra resistance counts.

Salt or sugar rim

The wide rim of the Sombrero is not only for salt. Sweet drinks take a sugar rim, spicy variations salt and chilli, some recipes powdered dried citrus: the broad surface keeps any rim even, where a narrow rim would leave it patchy. The usual rule applies: wet only the outside, or the rim ends up in the drink.

Care

Dishwasher safe. Rinse off leftover salt straight away, because as it dries it leaves a cloudy film on the rim that shows after the next cycle. Load wide-rimmed glasses with more space than usual: the rim is the part that chips.

FAQ

Is the Sombrero only for the Margarita? It is designed for it, but the wide rim works with any rimmed drink, salt or sugar.

How do I rim the glass without salting the drink? Moisten only the outer rim and keep the glass tilted outwards as you turn it in the salt.

Will it take frozen drinks? Yes, the manufacturer declares higher resistance to thermal shock, the typical cycle for these drinks.

How much does it really hold? 270ml brim-full: with crushed ice the usable serve is noticeably less.

Does salt damage the glass? No, but rinse it off straight away: as it dries it leaves a cloudy film on the rim.

Can it be served with ice? Yes, the Margarita is served both up and over crushed ice.

The more you buy, the less you pay: 4 packs -5%, 6 -7%, 8 -10%, on the same item.

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For the other shapes in the category and the sizes they match, see the cocktail glass guide.