porron

A porron is a sort of glass bottle with a pointed spout from which a thin jet of wine spurts out whenever you tip it up; you can thus drink from a distance, without touching it with your lips, and it can be passed from hand to hand.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

We ate at long trestle-tables out of permanently greasy tin pannikins, and drank out of a dreadful thing called a porron.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

I went on strike and demanded a drinking-cup as soon as I saw a porron in use.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

Be warned, however, that after a sip of the sherry-quince-scotch-lemon slush or a pour from an elaborate glass porron pitcher, a tapas-sized pour of even the best of the wines may seem ho-hum by comparison.

Home/News Elana Schor 2010

Be warned, however, that after a sip of the sherry-quince-scotch-lemon slush or a pour from an elaborate glass porron pitcher, a tapas-sized pour of even the best of the wines may seem ho-hum by comparison.

Home/News Elana Schor 2010

Be warned, however, that after a sip of the sherry-quince-scotch-lemon slush or a pour from an elaborate glass porron pitcher, a tapas-sized pour of even the best of the wines may seem ho-hum by comparison.

Home/News 2010

You can get the Spanish sparkler in a porron, a glass wine pitcher with a long spout.

Boston.com Top Stories 2010