I felt the wine glass was appropriate, but my spouse worried that the alcohol-related stemware might be a trigger of sorts.

A party host worries that a guest who is a recovering alcoholic shouldn’t be served grape juice in a wine glass; a New Years ...

and the insult of a crappy glass of sparkling grape juice only adds to the injury of alienation. Enter: non-alcoholic wine. This may be one of those products you tried and wrote off years ago ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Over Thanksgiving, a relative brought a recovering alcoholic (several years sober) as a guest. He brought a bottle of grape juice as his beverage for the evening, in lieu of wine.