After years of back and forth with a small army of marketing and public-relations people, I finally got what I'd been looking for: a chance to sit down with Maximilian Riedel and debunk the "theory" ...

Like many wine drinkers, we don’t give a lot of thought to what glass we pour our wine into as long as we never see the bottom. That;s wrong, says Maximilian Riedel, 11th-generation glassmaker and CEO ...

Taking charge of a family company is typically an honor, although it’s an honor replete with challenges. When you’re the 11th-generation family CEO, steering a ship that was launched in 1756, consider ...

Maximilian Riedel left his native Austria in his early 20s and spent more than a decade working for the family glassware business in the U.S. So when he wanted to reconnect with his roots after being ...

Among the many oenophiles visiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's new "How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now" exhibition was Riedel USA chief executive Maximilian J. Riedel. The ...

Accoutrements are important to Maximilian Riedel, who comes from 11 generations of Bohemian and Austrian glassmakers known most widely in modern times for wine glasses. He dresses in bespoke suits and ...

When Maximilian Riedel took over the American branch of his family's company, he made a few changes. After about eight months of running the show at the Long Island, N.Y.-based facility, Riedel got ...

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