Huephoria Wine Glass Review & Giveaway!

Anyone that knows me, knows how much I love wine, so when I was recently given the opportunity to review a super chic wine glass from HuePhoria, I was thrilled. To me there is just something about a fun, flirty wine glass that make the wine taste that much better. Don't you agree? Their wine glasses are very unique and all of them rock this cute, hand-painted ball design at the top of the stem.

HuePhoria sells their fabulous wine glasses individually and you can mix & match designs to make up your own set. That way when you have the girls over or host a dinner party, you will be able to give all your guests their own design....and everyone will be impressed, trust me.

I ended up choosing The Bessie, which is pictured above. I am a sucker for animal print anything, so this is totally my style. I want the zebra, leopard, tiger and giraffe prints next, so if anyone wants to buy me a present, now you know what to get me! They have many other cool designs, too. There's a cute one with a peace sign, a shamrock, and even Fido. There are a ton of cool designs, so you will surely find something to fit your personality!

About HuePhoria:

"HuePhoria's two Syracuse, NY artists, Jen and Lisa, met at a "Mom's Coffee"
in 1998. While staying home to raise their children, they both had found outlets
to feed their creative souls...and to keep their sanity. Their common interests
would eventually come in very handy for their future endeavor: throwing fun and
spontaneous parties, experiencing retail therapy outings and, of course,
painting anything they could get their hands on. The two quickly became great
friends and decided to paint furniture and glassware to try to make some extra
cash. Lisa and Jen began selling their HuePhoria hand painted goods at local
fundraisers and through word of mouth to get their hobby-turned-business into
motion.

The HuePhoria "ball" concept was born in 1999 out of necessity. The wine glass supply in their cupboards seemed to be dwindling (probably from the fun and spontaneous parties) and they saw this as an opportunity to paint some new ones for themselves that would be much more creative than the glasses they were seeing in stores. Not only that, the idea of each person having their own unique ball design on their glass would solve the ongoing dilemma of remembering who's drink was who's! Lisa and Jen got to work, painting each glass and baking them in their ovens, and selling them to the loyal customer base they had built locally. (Unfortunately for their families it was about the only baking being done in their kitchens!)

After selling more than 5,000 glasses in 2 years, they hit a point where could not keep up with demand, nor could they offer the glasses to retail stores at a wholesale price that would keep them in business. (Not to mention that they were both going blind from the tiny detail painting!) In 2005, grassroots HuePhoria took a leap...they partnered with dear friend Kathy (a NH businesswoman) to help jump start HuePhoria glassware into mass production.

HuePhoria LLC was formed with a goal to design, manufacture and distribute unique glassware to upscale gift boutiques, party throwers and cocktail queens across the country. The partners designed a new glass, bigger and sturdier to appeal to all wine lovers, beer drinkers (made to hold a full one), cocktail drinkers and milk drinkers alike.With a high quality line of hand-blown, hand-painted, dishwasher safe stemware, HuePhoria hit the retail market. Jen, Lisa & Kathy have been "having a ball entertaining" ever since".

HuePhoria also has a NICE selection of martini glasses, ornaments and salt & pepper shakers. All of their products would make fantastic gifts, especially house warming gifts. Their shipping was extremely fast and the wine glass I received was very well packaged, so it didn't break when I dropped the box (oops)!

Win it: Kathy at HuePhoria has generously offerered one (1) of my lucky readers a wine glass of their choice!

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This giveaway will end at midnight (EST) on 06/05/10 and is open to U.S. and Canadian residents. The winner will be chosen via random.org and will be notified by email. Thanks again to Kathy at HuePhoria for offering this fantastic giveaway!

***Please note that I received no form of monetary compensation for this post. I did receive a sample of the product to try in order to write a fair and honest review. The opinions expressed in this review are my own and were not influenced in any way. ***