Research, field trials and a 'man kiss'
I am not a selfish man!
To prove I am not a
selfish man I am about to share with you some of the findings from my
latest research project and accompanying field trials or more
accurately cellar trials, wine cellar trials. You see, at great
personal expense, and great personal hardship I have been
investigating 'decanting'.
Decanting is the
process of passing a liquid from one vessel to another. In this case
the liquid is wine and the vessels are the bottle it comes in and a
decanter or carafe. A decanter is a container into which the wine is
decanted – don't you just love definitions! A carafe is a container
into which the wine can also be decanted – that's cleared that up
then. As far as I can make out a decanter is up market as in 'I lease
an apartment' and carafe is a little more down market as in 'I rent a
flat'. Both decanters and carafes are mainly but not exclusively made
of glass. The real differentiator, as far as I can see, appears to be
that a decanter has a stopper and a carafe does not. Presumably if
you lose the stopper to your decanter it is instantly downgraded to a
carafe.
Glass vessels aside the
question to be answered is 'will the wines in my cellar benefit from
decanting?'
