The carafe is the eye-catcher at invitations. With lime or mint as a taste enhancer of soda tastes twice as good. For daily use (my wife and I drink every day at least. 3 liter soda or water) I have yet to buy a second carafe of 1.3 liters. For such Zwekck they would be too small. But if you at dinner with friends, a glass of wine drinking and this is enough water from the carafe, it looks very stylish.