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Real glass at 8.5 oz — $14 over the plastic cup with the same gel

Host 11398

Two real-glass double-wall wine tumblers with cooling gel, frozen upside down for two hours.

Host Wine Freeze grey real glass insulated wine tumblers, set of two

Host 11398

Two real-glass double-wall wine tumblers with cooling gel, frozen upside down for two hours.

Type
Stemless insulated cooling tumbler — not a tasting glass
Quantity
2
Capacity
8.5 oz
Material
Real glass, double wall
Gel
Active cooling gel in the insulated walls
Freezing
Freeze upside down so the gel disperses evenly; two hours for white wine
Reds
Chill in the fridge rather than the freezer
Bands
Silicone
Size
64 × 64 × 127 mm (2.52 × 2.52 × 5 in)
Weight
369 g (13 oz)
Serving temperatures
Not stated here — the plastic version of this cup publishes them
Amazon reference
B0D6WLW4TX
EAN
0842094113989
  • Real glass with the same gel walls as the plastic version, so the wine meets glass and not plastic
  • The only listing here that says to freeze the cup upside down, so the gel settles evenly round the bowl
  • Fourteen dollars over the plastic cup at the same 8.5 oz, from the same maker, with the same gel

Best for: Indoors, where a cooling tumbler should feel like glass rather than plastic

≈ $34
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Specifications

Type
Stemless insulated cooling tumbler — not a tasting glass
Quantity
2
Capacity
8.5 oz
Material
Real glass, double wall
Gel
Active cooling gel in the insulated walls
Freezing
Freeze upside down so the gel disperses evenly; two hours for white wine
Reds
Chill in the fridge rather than the freezer
Bands
Silicone
Size
64 × 64 × 127 mm (2.52 × 2.52 × 5 in)
Weight
369 g (13 oz)
Serving temperatures
Not stated here — the plastic version of this cup publishes them
Amazon reference
B0D6WLW4TX
EAN
0842094113989

What the maker puts in writing

  • Real glass, double wall, 8.5 oz, set of 2
  • Insulated walls filled with active cooling gel — a chiller when frozen
  • Freeze upside down so the gel disperses evenly
  • Two hours in the freezer for white wine; the fridge for reds
  • Silicone bands

The same cup in two materials

Host sells an 8.5 oz gel-walled tumbler twice on this shelf: $19.99 in BPA-free plastic and $33.99 in real glass.

Same capacity. Same gel. Same two-hour freeze.

Fourteen dollars buys the feel of glass and loses you the outdoors.

The detail worth copying

Freeze it upside down.

Gel in a double wall will pool in the bottom if you stand the cup up in the freezer, and then it chills the base of your wine and not the rest. One sentence, in one of the three Host listings, that applies to all of them.

Availability

Read on the day this page was built: $34 at the American Amazon shop.

Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-04. The live price is at the top of the page.

What readers ask us

Is it worth $14 over the plastic version?

You get real glass instead of BPA-free plastic at the same capacity and with the same gel. What you lose is outdoor use and the published serving temperatures, which only the plastic listing gives. If the cup never leaves the house, glass is the nicer object.

Why upside down?

So the gel inside the double wall spreads evenly around the bowl instead of pooling in the base. This is the only Host listing on the shelf that says so, and it applies to all three.

How long to chill?

Two hours in the freezer for a white; the fridge for a red, to hold it at cellar temperature rather than make it cold.

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