What is all this decanting about? Why do some bottles of wine get decanted, and others don't? How long should you decant for, and how does that vary by wine?
Decanting is all about removing sediment from a wine, and allowing the wine to breathe. These are things that older, red wines do - young wines and white wines do not usually have to be decanted.
First, the sediment. Wines have all sorts of organic things in them - yeast, grape skins, and so on. The wine naturally has very small particles…
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Posted on May 8, 2009 at 10:30pm —