Anyway back to my sun dappled but shady table. I've asked for the bottled beer and they ask me if I want a glass - un vaso. Lots of people don't because, if you've paid the higher price for a bottle of beer or if you've gone for some fancy craft beer, you probably want to show how discerning you are. So no to the vaso.
But for some reason wine doesn't come in vasos. It could, and in lots of older films it does, but nowadays you would generally ask for a copa, a stemmed glass, when you're asking for wine. So for the wine drinkers it's -ponme una copa de tinto- or some such. I don't drink a lot of wine. I was going to add that those flat bottomed, very small glasses that are sometimes used for wine are call cullín but Google doesn't agree; Google says the most common name for those is a cortito. In some parts of Spain they are called zurito or penalti. I'm pretty sure it's culín around here though. Probably something to do with a culo, a bottom, as in bum. When I was a lad wine glasses were less voluminous than they are now. They weren't for swirling they were for filling to the top and they were made by the French firm that made the school water glasses, Duralex. A Spanish bloke told me they were called chatos and that chato is used to describe someone with a snub nose too.
What made me think of all this was the word chupito. If my summer drink is a nice cold beer then my winter drink is a coffee paired with a shot glass sized brandy, un chupito. We were out with friends the other day and I said I'd have a coffee and a chupito. Then it dawned that I wasn't the designated driver so I left the table and went to the bar to change my order to a café y copa. I got my brandy in one of those balloon shaped brandy glasses. Later my friend, generously, thought he'd order me another brandy - he'd heard my chupito order but not the change to a copa so he asked for a chupito. The brandy, as it should, came in a John Wayne at the bar drinking redeye sized glass.