Serving Wine
Decanting Wine
Decanting means to simply pour wine from it's bottle
into decanter, carafe, or a pitcher. This is mostly
done with Red wines. There are two reasons for decanting
wine:
- To aerate a young wine to make it mature more rapidly
- To seperate the setiment of an older wine
When decanting a young wine you can simply cork it
and pour it in the decanter. Pouring from a height will
help to aerate the wine more.
Decanting an older wine requires more patience. Be
careful to not disturb the deposits on the bottom of
the bottle. Hold the bottle with a light behind it to
illuminate the deposit so you can see if it starts to
move.
The wine should be decanted from a half an hour up
to four hours, depending on the age. The older the wine,
the less time it should sit. Ig an older wine is decanted
to long it will start to lose flavor.
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