Which shape is better for red burg & bojo?

I use the "fish bowl" on the left for red burgundy (and cru beaujolais) but noticed that the Riedel site recommends it only for white burgundy. Riedel suggests these two other shapes (for both red burg & bojo). In Burgundy last year, we encountered all three shapes in restaurants. Do you have preferences?

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I admire the Riedel glasses but once wrote an article that if one followed their advice on every recommended glass and wanted six glasses of each one would need a shelf 22 feet long and 9 feet high.

Me, I'm for the white Burgundy glass for all Burgundy whites and reds as well as for cru Beaujolais wines.

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Rogov

I think the one on the left is the Montrachet glass? It is good also for red Burgundies, IMO. I have the Vinum Burgundy which is somewhat similar - maybe a bit bigger and more curved inward at the top - that I use for Bojo, Burg and white Musar and such wines that seem to need a big bowl. There is a wine bar in Helsinki that uses the middle glass and I really love it - but for two reasons I haven't bought them. 1) I don't really see all that much differences in the glasses and 2) they are expensive. I think any big bowl should work with the wines.

I don't get too wrapped up in worrying about stems. That said, I have a lot of stems and you might as well use them. I have Burg stems in both left and center shapes. My preference for red Burgundy is the one in the middle. Sometimes I use the one of left (fishbowl) for bigger white Burgs, but most of the time I use a smaller (though not small) stem- about 14oz, the Schott Zweisel Chardonnay I think. Which is actually what I usually use for red Beaujolais, too.

I admire the Riedel glasses but once wrote an article that if one followed their advice on every recommended glass and wanted six glasses of each one would need a shelf 22 feet long and 9 feet high.

... and them very profitable indeed

Thanks everyone for your responses. I checked the Vinum Burgundy glass Otto mentions and found this curious commentary attached to its description:

NOTE: Although this glass is quite differently shaped from the equivalent Sommeliers glass, the Burgundy Grand Cru (400/16), both designs are as effective in bringing out the character of the wine because they control the flow of the wine onto the palate in the same manner.

Not that I totally buy into the notion that each wine has an ideal shape of glass, but this seems positively subversive of the concept in declaring that two quite different shapes can be equally good...

Not that I totally buy into the notion that each wine has an ideal shape of glass...

No? Here is the dual purpose Vinum Pinotage and Carmenere glass - even comes with a cover to keep down evaporation!

I like that cover better than cork!