Denver Cramer is fizzing. The glassware designer has returned from France, the spiritual home of fine wine, to ripper reports about his new wine glass. “It was beyond my wildest dreams,” he says of the response from French wine producers.

The glass in question is certainly unlike anything you’ve seen before. It’s slim up top with a lip, and a bowl that bulges at the bottom. More striking is an island rising up through the centre of the bowl, around which run a series of what looks like ripples.