Brit handles 51 wine glasses in one hand

Philip Osenton, a 43-year-old wine consultant based in Beijing, began handling dozens of glasses at a time early in his career working at major London hotels the Ritz and Savoy, which he said laid the groundwork for the feat.The carrying of glasses is a sommelier thing. When I was head sommelier at the Ritz hotel, Ive had a 140-cover restaurant to set up in the morning between breakfast and lunch, so basically with two glasses per setting I had got 280 glasses to put out with a very short amount of time, Osenton told AFP. You have a lot of pressure to get the room ready.In his first attempt Osenton managed 45 glasses in one go, but made it to 51 on a second try, stacking the glasses on their side on top of each other in his left hand.The previous record of 39 glasses was made in 2007 by a Filipino man in a Barcelona restaurant, according to Jim Boyce, founder of the China wine blog grapewallofchina.com.