Copa o Vaso

Question

How would I ask for a glass of wine in Madrid or Mexico?

"Un vaso de vino"

"Una copa de vino"

Are these different in any way? What other possibilities are there?

Thanks for any extra information!

Answer 1

Copa is cup and vaso is glass and they are usually used like we do in English ie a cup of coffee a glass of water,except as noted above "copa de vino" is common and we don'[t usually say cup of wine unless it is a religious context.

Gracias, SSSandra. - Jespa, Dec 20, 2009

Answer 2

Philistine! How plebian. You're likely to be drinking wine from a water glass rather than fine crystal. Have you no respect for the grape!

It reminds me that recently someone offered me a glass of wine and I poured it into a paper cup. I like the wine. I couldn't care less about the container.

I'd stick with copa when drinking wine. Probably depends on whether you are a vinophile or a brown bagger: However, here's a debate:

copa o vaso

Thanks qfreed: I'll go with the copa then (with a fine Rioja, preferably). - Jespa, Dec 19, 2009

Jeje - no brown-baggers in the UK! - Jespa, Dec 19, 2009

Querría una copa de vino tinto, por favor :)) - Issabela, Dec 19, 2009

Answer 3

Check these two:

copa de vino/vaso de vino

vaso de vino o copa de vino

Oh boy - I'm not the first to wonder about that, then? (I know I should research first, but if I always did that I would probably never ask a question!) Thanks very much for your reply. - Jespa, Dec 19, 2009

Oops. We grabbed the same link. - 0074b507, Dec 19, 2009