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Where to put the wine glass and water glass on the table?
Wine and water glasses are placed at the top right of the plate; if you think of it as the dial of a clock, at about one or two o'clock.
The so-called guide glass is the glass into which the wine is poured that is drunk with the main course; this is usually the red wine glass or at least the largest wine glass. This guide glass, to which all other glasses are aligned, stands in a straight line above the main course knife.
If the directional glass is the only wine glass of the place setting on the table, the water glass is at the bottom right when viewed from it, i.e. at four or five o'clock.
If there are two wine glasses - one for red wine and one for white wine - the directional glass remains the red wine glass and the white wine glass is at about four or five o'clock on the right below it. The water glass then stands in a straight line to the right under the white wine glass, so again at four or five o'clock. Alternatively, with three glasses, the water glass can be placed at the top right between the red and white wine glasses, creating a kind of glass triangle.
With four glasses (red wine glass, white wine glass, water glass and champagne or dessert wine glass), the champagne or dessert wine glass is either - in the first case (row of glasses) - placed in a straight line to the left above the red wine glass (at about ten or eleven o'clock) or - in the second case (triangle of glasses) - placed above between the red and the water glass, resulting in a square of glasses. The fact that in this case the guest cannot initially reach the fourth glass (i.e. the champagne or dessert wine glass) is irrelevant, because when the white and red wine glasses are cleared after the respective courses in the menu sequence, this fourth glass becomes the guide glass and takes its position above the cheese knife or dessert spoon.
In this respect, if there are more than two glasses, the row of glasses is the more space-consuming but also the more practical option.