Drave Water Pipette + Carafe

Whisky is a complicated spirit. It’s comprised of alcohol molecules, water molecules, and a myriad of flavor compounds, not all of which are fully understood. These elements arrange themselves in particular patterns and when water is added to your whisky, the strength of the alcohol changes, altering the pattern of the chemical compounds in your glass.

What’s the reason for doing this? As seen with the Norlan Whisky Glass, the whisky tasting experience can be dramatically improved when the alcohol present in your spirit isn’t allowed to rule the show. When you add water to your whisky, a little bit at a time, you can open up flavors and aromas that may have been suppressed by the alcohol.

The Drave Water Pipette & Carafe diptych balances advanced digital design, precision machined production, and avant-garde glassmaking, for this intimate whisky ritual.

Take the Pipette deftly between your fingers. Draw the water and add to your whisky. Nose. Taste. Experiment. Discover your ritual.


 The Pipette pulls the eye into perspective acrobatics, a square profile that manages to compress its dimension around a vacuum bore.

The aluminum is first extruded and milled, then tumbled against porous rocks before being anodized and finally shock sprayed to create a uniquely textured matte surface.

The depressions on the ends are tailored to fit the fingertip, allowing you, the user, to arrest the central pull of gravity by vacuum, and draw your water from the carafe. 




The Carafe is a new type of object, in a left of center, unorthodox, ultra-futurist form. Watch as it rides the blurred lines, breaking format from organic to geometric, from gloss to matte, and from transparent to opaque. Digitally designed, it is methodically brought to life over the course of five hand crafted processes involving mouth blowing glass, diamond wheel cutting, sanding, polishing, and oiling.

The set takes its name from the Old Scottish word "to draw"—water into the pipette, an altered aroma into the nose, an extended spirit onto the tongue. These are objects for the whisky alchemist in you, transforming your spirit through the slow, ritualized addition of water to whisky.