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The Glass, RIEDEL LAUNCHES ITS AFFORDABLE AND DURABLE RESTAURANT COLLECTION 2012 by Meridith May / photos by Erica Bartel Translated Maximilian Riedel, photographed at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills. M 100 / the tasting panel / may 2012 aximilian Riedel has a regal quality about him. He speaks English with an austere Austrian accent, he looks like a prince when he has a wine glass in his hand and his warm and hospitable nature defi nes the word diplomat. Yet the CEO of Riedel Crystal, the 11th-generation head of the family-owned com- pany based in Kufstein, Austria, still refers to himself as the descendant of a line of glassblowers: He began learning the family trade at age 12. But his father, Georg, also gave him the perspective needed to run an international company. As the principle designer of the company's elegant and unique decanters, Maximilian and his father created the fi rst vessel to double-decant (the Eve, in 2008) and the