Welcome to Ask a Somm, a column in which experts from across the country answer questions about wine. Today’s installment: How do I know when to decant a bottle of wine? “Firstly, it’s important to ...

"Romans used decanting, and the only reason we need to decant now is to remove sediment. Older wines over time, bigger-skin grapes like Bordeaux, have sediment. It releases the esters (specific aromas ...

There are three, nonnegotiable things every wine drinker needs. First, uh, wine. Second, a corkscrew to open aforementioned wine. Third—I’m sorry, but not the wine glass charms you bought on something ...

Part of wine's mythology is that it needs to "breathe." Breathing goes along with the idea that wine is alive - it evolves in the bottle and the glass, it has moods, it gets better with age, like the ...

Great news! It is totally possible to get in on the decanting trend without buying a heap of plastic containers, or taking time off from work to delicately funnel cinnamon from one tiny jar into ...

What is decanting? Simply put, it means transferring (decanting) the contents of a wine bottle into another receptacle (the decanter) before serving. It may sound silly (how can pouring wine from one ...

As wine ages, sediment from the grapes can settle and accumulate at the bottom of the bottle. This is where decanting comes into play. We spoke to Gabriel Corbett, AGM and Head Sommelier at ...

What is decanting? Simply put, decanting wine means to transfer the contents of the bottle to a decanter prior to serving. We could probably be doing a lot more decanting than we are, but maybe people ...

Like the average casual wine consumer in America, I drink bottles mostly in the $10 to $15 range. I’ve never decanted my wine (poured it into another container to allow it to “breathe” before serving) ...