To Decant
There a lot of reasons to decant. But they all come back to one variable - the need for oxygen. There’s a chink in the telephone game if you think all old wine needs decanting. Most don’t. Time has done the work for you. When you decant bottles that don’t need it, you speed up the process to vinegar land and you miss a lot of awesome aromatic and textural stops along the way.
There a lot of reasons to decant. But they all come back to one variable - the need for oxygen. There’s a chink in the telephone game if you think all old wine needs decanting. Most don’t. Time has done the work for you. When you decant bottles that don’t need it, you speed up the process to vinegar land and you miss a lot of awesome aromatic and textural stops along the way.
There a lot of reasons to decant. But they all come back to one variable - the need for oxygen. There’s a chink in the telephone game if you think all old wine needs decanting. Most don’t. Time has done the work for you. When you decant bottles that don’t need it, you speed up the process to vinegar land and you miss a lot of awesome aromatic and textural stops along the way.
