Tuesday, August 7, 2007

How to Decant a Bottle of Wine

By Michael Brown Decanting wine is a simple process to help improve the quality of the wine your drink. It is also a step I believe should never be skipped. Why should you decant a bottle of wine? To fully enjoy and experience a bottle of wine you should decant and here I’ll show you how. First you may ask what is decanting wine. Decanting wine removes the sediment from the bottle of a fine wine by allowing you to pour the wine into a beaker-like container called a decanter. It also allows the wine to aerate and breathe. When pouring the wine from the bottle into the decanter the wine becomes exposed to oxygen which greatly enhances the taste, flavors and aromas of the wine.
Full bodied red wines are the best wines to decant as they usually end up with more sedi View the rest of this article


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