{"id":14500,"date":"2017-11-04T00:22:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T23:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/?p=14500"},"modified":"2017-11-06T00:23:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T23:23:08","slug":"why-should-use-decanter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/why-should-use-decanter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why should I use a decanter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why should I use a decanter? There are two reasons why we decant wines:<br \/>\n1. Decant an older wine to separate it from its sediment.<br \/>\n2. Decant a younger wine to increase aeration, revealing more complexity, and opening up aromas and flavors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To enjoy young wines fully (up to 10 years for both red and white) consider opening them 8 \u2013 12 hours prior to consumption for aeration, or decant the wine, as this shortens the aeration process.<\/li>\n<li>The main preservation element in wine is carbon dioxide, which is integrated with the wine during the first (= alcoholic) fermentation.<\/li>\n<li>Decanting reduces the amount of carbon dioxide and &#8220;matures&#8221; the wine, allowing the bouquet to develop faster.<\/li>\n<li>On the palate, decanted wine expresses higher levels of fruit in red wines and tends to integrate and smooth out tannins.<\/li>\n<li>When decanting young wines, turn the bottle straight into the decanter and let it splash into the vessel, allowing maximum aeration.<\/li>\n<li>When decanting off the sediment of an old wine, slowly pour the wine into the decanter without allowing any sediment to leave the bottle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We suggest you try the following exercise:<br \/>\nUsing identical glasses, decant half the bottle and serve the other half directly from the bottle \u2013 then draw your own conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Riedel:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.riedel.com\/all-about-riedel\/why-use-a-decanter\/\">www.riedel.com\/all-about-riedel\/why-use-a-decanter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why should I use a decanter? There are two reasons why we decant wines: 1. Decant an older wine to separate it from its sediment. 2. Decant a younger wine to increase aeration, revealing more complexity, and opening up aromas and flavors. To enjoy young &raquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[961,964,1172,227],"class_list":["post-14500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comic-strip","tag-austria","tag-decanter","tag-riedel","tag-wine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14501,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14500\/revisions\/14501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineinsicily.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}